Bazel doesn't respect pytest cli arguments defined in lower level conftest files

[asyash26]

I have a nested structure of test folders containing conftest files on different levels. In conftest files I use 'pytest_addoption' to specify custom test arguments. My problem is that bazel only respects cli arguments if they are defined in the high level conftest file, for the arguments in the lower-level conftest files I get an error 'unrecognized arguments'. Can you please help me to avoid this error?

load("@aspect_rules_py//py:defs.bzl", "py_library", "py_pytest_main", "py_test")
load("@custom_requirements//:requirements.bzl", "requirement")

py_pytest_main(
    name = "__test__",
    deps = [
        requirement("pytest"),
    ],
)

py_test(
    name = "test_target",
    size = "small",
    srcs = [
        "__test__",
        "helpers.py",
        "test.py",
        "conftest.py",  <- lower level conftest file
    ],
    args = [
        "--import-mode=importlib",
        "--rootdir=tests",
    ],
    main = ":__test__.py",
    deps = [
        ":__test__",
        "//tests:conftest", <-- global conftest file
    ],
)`

Note: the folder structure inside bazel workspace looks correct, meaning that it repeats the nested structure of the code.

[meteorcloudy]

Maybe report this to https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_python instead?