[Python] Slow Python Async Playwright tests when running with with async_playwright() as p:

New to writing tests in playwright with Python, I am currently attempting to uplift our current TypeScript playwright tests into Python Playwright.

To begin with I have been experimenting with the example tests from playwright.

Running three very basic async tests that simply go to playwright and print the title of the webpage takes ~50 seconds. The same time is true for setting up my tests in a similar sync_playwright manner.

Async Implementation:

from playwright.async_api import async_playwright


def test_has_title():
with async_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch()
context = browser.new_context()
page = context.new_page()

# Go to the Playwright documentation page
page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
print(page.title())


By using the Page object itself I am able to speed up the time to about 30 seconds for the 3 tests when running it in sync:

from playwright.sync_api import Page

async def test_has_title(page: Page):
page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
print(page.title())


From what I think I understand the time difference it mostly a result of creating new browsers and pages, however I'd like to do my tests as quickly as possible in async. Using a page object asynchronously in a similar way as the last example does not work.

This is the code I was attempting to run:

import pytest
from playwright.async_api import Page

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_has_title(page: Page):
await page.goto("https://playwright.dev/")
print(await page.title())


Package versions:

playwright 1.51.0
pytest 8.3.5
pytest-asyncio 0.26.0
pytest-base-url 2.1.0
pytest-dotenv 0.5.2
pytest-playwright 0.7.0


How can I share the page object among multiple asynchronous tests in order to speed up test execution.

Thanks in advance

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