title: Collecting and Reporting pytest Results
body: <p>I am doing some Selenium testing via pytest. The next step is to start doing some reporting. I'd like to write something that allows me to run the tests, collect the results and send out an email. So far the closest thing that I've found to this is writing out the test result to the result log and then use a plugin to check the exist status and send an email from there. This works but is slightly cumbersome and I'm hoping that there is a more elegant way to do it. While the overall pytest documentation is great, the plugin documentation is rather poor - I can't even find <code>pytest_sessionfinish</code> anywhere, even though it appears to work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pytest
  
  class MyPlugin:
      def pytest_sessionfinish(self, exitstatus):
          if exitstatus == 0:
              #Send success email
              pass
          else: 
              #Read output.txt
              #Add output.txt to email body
              #Send email
              pass
  
  pytest.main("--resultlog=output.txt", plugins=[MyPlugin()])
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p><strong>Q: What is the best way to run and collect results from pytest?</strong> </p>
  
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