How to print to console in pytest?

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I’m trying to use TDD (test-driven development) with pytest.
pytest will not print to the console when I use print.

I am using pytest my_tests.py to run it.

The documentation seems to say that it should work by default: http://pytest.org/latest/capture.html

But:

import myapplication as tum

class TestBlogger:

    @classmethod
    def setup_class(self):
        self.user = "alice"
        self.b = tum.Blogger(self.user)
        print "This should be printed, but it won't be!"

    def test_inherit(self):
        assert issubclass(tum.Blogger, tum.Site)
        links = self.b.get_links(posts)
        print len(links)   # This won't print either.

Nothing gets printed to my standard output console (just the normal progress and how many many tests passed/failed).

And the script that I’m testing contains print:

class Blogger(Site):
    get_links(self, posts):
        print len(posts)   # It won't get printed in the test.

In unittest module, everything gets printed by default, which is exactly what I need. However, I wish to use pytest for other reasons.

Does anyone know how to make the print statements get shown?

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