Yes, you can alter the way tracebacks are printed (or not printed) for test failures:
https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#modifying-pytho...
https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#modifying-pytho...
It still annoys me that
==================================================================================== FAILURES =====================================================================================
takes the whole screen width. I can pipe stdout through "cat" to fix it, but it's not very convenient.