When invoking pytest, here are a couple useful configurations:
show logging output
$ pytest --capture=no --log-cli-level=DEBUG
spawn PDB with IPython upon exception
$ pytest --pdb --pdbcls=IPython.terminal.debugger:TerminalPdb
use breakpoint() (Python 3.7+)
if va == 0x401000:
breakpoint()
use interact to drop into IPython shell from ipdb
ipdb> interact
*interactive*
In [1]: r = 10