Background

I'm working towards introducing pants. Eventually I would like to use pants to run tests to take advantage of the fine-grained per-file caching of results that accounts for dependencies by python files (pants infers the deps by reading the python files). But, pants uses pytest to run tests not nosetest.

This is another of several PRs that improves our compatibility with pytest. Others include: #5686, #5690, #5691

Note: I do not have pytest support completely ironed out, but this is a step in that direction. Don't expect running all our tests with pytest to work yet.

Overview

Tests hang (with endless cycles between green threads that can't figure out what to do) when mongoengine gets imported before the monkey patching. So, this adjusts our monkey_patching code and the tests that use mongoengine to make our tests work better under pytest.

We need this because pytest can load test files in any order, or even load only a single test file. Since eventlet monkey_patching is very sensitive to when the monkey_patching happens, we need to make these adjustments or the tests won't work under pytest.