[mehdikarimi55]

Description

Fixes #15370.

AI-assisted work: the analysis, patch, and tests were drafted with the help of an AI agent (GLM, credited in the Co-authored-by trailer) under my supervision; I reviewed the change, verified the reproduction and the test evidence, and take responsibility for it. I'll answer any review questions personally.

When a @pytest.mark.parametrize mark with explicit ids= is shared by several tests (for example, when the mark is put on a class), the ids resolved by the first test are cached on the mark (_param_ids_generated). Every later test sharing the mark passed those cached ids through _resolve_parameter_set_ids again, escaping them a second time:

test_cls.py::TestShared::test_one[p\nq]
test_cls.py::TestShared::test_two[p\\nq]   # second test: double-escaped

Since node ids are how tests are selected, the later tests cannot be selected by the id the user asked for (ERROR: not found, exit code 4) — which also breaks reruns, sharding, --deselect, and mutation-testing tools that reuse node ids across repeated pytest.main() calls in one process (the module is not re-imported, so the second session finds the already-escaped ids and escapes them again).

The fix skips re-resolution when the cached ids are used.

How Has This Been Tested?

Two regression tests in testing/python/metafunc.py:

• test_parametrize_mark_ids_not_escaped_twice_on_reuse (unit level): two Metafunc instances consume the same shared mark, as happens across repeated pytest.main() calls; both must produce the id escaped exactly once.
• test_parametrize_mark_ids_shared_between_tests_escaped_once (end-to-end): the issue's minimal example — a class-level parametrize mark with ids=["p\nq"]; both test methods must collect as [p\nq].

Red/green: both tests fail on main (1b6f441) and pass with the fix.

• pytest testing/python/metafunc.py testing/test_mark.py: 263 passed
• pytest testing/python/ testing/test_collection.py testing/test_nodes.py: 869 passed

Before

$ pytest --collect-only -q test_cls.py
test_cls.py::TestShared::test_one[p\nq]
test_cls.py::TestShared::test_two[p\\nq]

After

$ pytest --collect-only -q test_cls.py
test_cls.py::TestShared::test_one[p\nq]
test_cls.py::TestShared::test_two[p\nq]

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[RonnyPfannschmidt]

🤖 Written by Claude Opus 5.5 via Claude Code for the pytest maintainers; I prompted it, it did the work, I read it.

Closing as slop. This PR applies the "Possible fix" diff from #15370 verbatim, and that diff was written by the issue reporter's AI agent. It also duplicates #15372, which was already open when you announced you'd work on it. Nobody investigated why the ids get escaped twice: the mark caches the resolved ids and feeds them back in as raw input. Skipping the second resolution hides the symptom and keeps the broken cache, so later pytest.main() sessions still get ids resolved under the previous session's config.

Disclosing the agent doesn't change that. Blindly running agents on random issues and opening whatever comes out wastes project time. Maintainers still have to do the actual investigation, and then review and close the PR on top of that. Please read the AI/LLM-Assisted Contributions Policy before contributing again.

The root cause is fixed in #15374.

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