I want to ensure that no warning at all is raised in one assertion. Could not find any explicit answer in pytest documentation about warnings. (dead link, the 3.2.* doc is not available anymore). I've tried this, thinking maybe None would mean "nothing": def test_AttrStr_parse_warnings(): """Check _AttrStr.parse() raises proper warnings in proper cases.""" with pytest.warns(None): _AttrStr('').parse() but this assertion is also always correct, for instance, the test does not fail, even if a warning is actually raised: def test_AttrStr_parse_warnings(): """Check _AttrStr.parse() raises proper warnings in proper cases.""" with pytest.warns(None): _AttrStr('').parse() warnings.warn('any message') Continue reading...