verbosity_assertions needs a string in TOML, docs show int

[nedbat]

Using 8.4.2 I had this in pyproject.toml:

[tool.pytest.ini_options]
verbosity_assertions = 5

With 9.0.0, I changed to:

[tool.pytest]
verbosity_assertions = 5

But this causes an error:

self = <_pytest.config.Config object at 0x104f63220>, name = 'verbosity_assertions', canonical_name = 'verbosity_assertions', type = 'string', value = 5
default = 'auto'

    def _getini_toml(
        self,
        name: str,
        canonical_name: str,
        type: str,
        value: object,
        default: Any,
    ):
        """Handle TOML config values with strict type validation and no coercion.

        In TOML mode, values already have native types from TOML parsing.
        We validate types match expectations exactly, including list items.
        """
        value_type = builtins.type(value).__name__
        if type == "paths":
            # Expect a list of strings.
            if not isinstance(value, list):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a list for type 'paths', "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
            for i, item in enumerate(value):
                if not isinstance(item, str):
                    item_type = builtins.type(item).__name__
                    raise TypeError(
                        f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a list of strings, "
                        f"but item at index {i} is {item_type}: {item!r}"
                    )
            dp = (
                self.inipath.parent
                if self.inipath is not None
                else self.invocation_params.dir
            )
            return [dp / x for x in value]
        elif type in {"args", "linelist"}:
            # Expect a list of strings.
            if not isinstance(value, list):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a list for type '{type}', "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
            for i, item in enumerate(value):
                if not isinstance(item, str):
                    item_type = builtins.type(item).__name__
                    raise TypeError(
                        f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a list of strings, "
                        f"but item at index {i} is {item_type}: {item!r}"
                    )
            return list(value)
        elif type == "bool":
            # Expect a boolean.
            if not isinstance(value, bool):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a bool, "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
            return value
        elif type == "int":
            # Expect an integer (but not bool, which is a subclass of int).
            if not isinstance(value, int) or isinstance(value, bool):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects an int, "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
            return value
        elif type == "float":
            # Expect a float or integer only.
            if not isinstance(value, (float, int)) or isinstance(value, bool):
                raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a float, "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
            return value
        elif type == "string":
            # Expect a string.
            if not isinstance(value, str):
>               raise TypeError(
                    f"{self.inipath}: config option '{name}' expects a string, "
                    f"got {value_type}: {value!r}"
                )
E               TypeError: /Users/ned/coverage/trunk/pyproject.toml: config option 'verbosity_assertions' expects a string, got int: 5

/usr/local/virtualenvs/coverage/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_pytest/config/__init__.py:1816: TypeError

This fixes it, but the docs say it should be an int:

[tool.pytest]
verbosity_assertions = "5"

[bluetech]

Thanks, we'll fix it.

[remimd]

Same issue for tmp_path_retention_count

[bluetech]

Thanks for the report @remimd.

This one looks like a mistake, in this case there is no reason for it to be an string rather than an int.

I wonder if we can still fix it (change to int) or if it's too late. Maybe it's possible to make both int and str work using some hack. I will check.