Drop compatibility with pytest < 7

CHANGES.rst

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Changelog
 
 Unreleased
 ----------
+- Drop compatibility with pytest < 7.0.0.
 
 8.0.0b1
 ----------

pyproject.toml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ python = ">=3.8"
 Mako = "*"
 parse = "*"
 parse-type = "*"
-pytest = ">=6.2.0"
+pytest = ">=7.0.0"
 typing-extensions = "*"
 packaging = "*"
 gherkin-official = "^29.0.0"

src/pytest_bdd/utils.py

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def collect_dumped_objects(result: RunResult) -> list:
     Note: You must run the result with output to stdout enabled.
     For example, using ``pytester.runpytest("-s")``.
     """
-    stdout = result.stdout.str()  # pytest < 6.2, otherwise we could just do str(result.stdout)
+    stdout = str(result.stdout)
     payloads = re.findall(rf"{_DUMP_START}(.*?){_DUMP_END}", stdout)
     return [pickle.loads(base64.b64decode(payload)) for payload in payloads]
 

tests/generation/test_generate_missing.py

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def test_generate_missing_with_step_parsers(pytester):
     assert not result.stderr.str()
     assert result.ret == 0
 
-    output = result.stdout.str()
+    output = str(result.stdout)
 
     assert "I use the string parser" not in output
     assert "I use parsers.parse" not in output

tests/scripts/test_generate.py

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ def test_generate_with_quotes(pytester):
     )
 
     result = pytester.run("pytest-bdd", "generate", "generate_with_quotes.feature")
-    assert result.stdout.str() == textwrap.dedent(
+    assert str(result.stdout) == textwrap.dedent(
         '''\
     """Handling quotes in code generation feature tests."""
 
@@ -211,4 +211,4 @@ def test_unicode_characters(pytester, monkeypatch):
                 raise NotImplementedError
             '''
     )
-    assert result.stdout.str() == expected_output
+    assert str(result.stdout) == expected_output

tox.ini

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tox]
 distshare = {homedir}/.tox/distshare
-envlist = py{3.8,3.9,3.10,3.11}-pytest{6.2,7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3,7.4,8.0,8.1,8.2,8.3,latest}-coverage
+envlist = py{3.8,3.9,3.10,3.11}-pytest{7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3,7.4,8.0,8.1,8.2,8.3,latest}-coverage
           py{3.12,3.13}-pytest{7.3,7.4,8.0,8.1,8.2,8.3,latest}-coverage
           py3.12-pytestlatest-xdist-coverage
           mypy
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ deps =
     pytest7.2: pytest~=7.2.0
     pytest7.1: pytest~=7.1.0
     pytest7.0: pytest~=7.0.0
-    pytest6.2: pytest~=6.2.0
 
     coverage: coverage[toml]
     xdist: pytest-xdist