Restore numeric string support for verbosity TOML options

AUTHORS

@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ Luke Murphy
 Maciek Fijalkowski
 Madan Kumar
 Maggie Chung
+Majid Al-Sakani
 Maho
 Maik Figura
 Mandeep Bhutani

changelog/15290.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Restore support for numeric strings in the ``verbosity_assertions``, ``verbosity_subtests``, and ``verbosity_test_cases`` TOML configuration options.

src/_pytest/config/__init__.py

@@ -1956,6 +1956,28 @@ def _getini(self, name: str):
                     mode, name, canonical_name, type, value, default
                 )
 
+            # Preserve support for numeric strings in fine-grained verbosity
+            # options while TOML's native integer values are handled directly.
+            if (
+                mode == "toml"
+                and isinstance(value, str)
+                and "int" in type
+                and canonical_name
+                in {
+                    Config._verbosity_ini_name(Config.VERBOSITY_ASSERTIONS),
+                    Config._verbosity_ini_name(Config.VERBOSITY_SUBTESTS),
+                    Config._verbosity_ini_name(Config.VERBOSITY_TEST_CASES),
+                }
+                and any(
+                    isinstance(member, _IniLiteral) and "auto" in member.choices
+                    for member in type
+                )
+            ):
+                try:
+                    return int(value)
+                except ValueError:
+                    pass
+
             # Union: try each member; the first one that accepts the value wins.
             for member in type:
                 try:

testing/test_config.py

@@ -3645,3 +3645,19 @@ def test_get_verbosity(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
         pytester.maketoml("[pytest]\nverbosity_assertions = 2\n")
         config = pytester.parseconfig()
         assert config.get_verbosity(Config.VERBOSITY_ASSERTIONS) == 2
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("name", "value", "expected"),
+        [
+            ("verbosity_assertions", '"2"', 2),
+            ("verbosity_subtests", '"-1"', -1),
+            ("verbosity_test_cases", '"3"', 3),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_verbosity_accepts_numeric_strings_in_toml(
+        self, pytester: Pytester, name: str, value: str, expected: int
+    ) -> None:
+        pytester.maketoml(f"[pytest]\n{name} = {value}\n")
+        config = pytester.parseconfig()
+        assert config.getini(name) == expected
+        assert config.get_verbosity(name.removeprefix("verbosity_")) == expected