I am new to pytest and I have python2.6 installed on my setup.
I installed pytest and the testcases get executed properly. I installed couple of plugins like pytest-timeout, putest-xdist etc but these plugins does not load when I run the cases. For timeout, I get following error:  py.test: error: unrecognized arguments: --timeout
Same steps followed with python2.7 works. 
Any idea how this can be solved or alteast steps to debug to know what exactly is causing the issue.
Unfortunately pytest < 3.0 "hides" the ImportError happening when failing to import a plugin. If you remove all plugin arguments but add -rw, you should be able to see what exactly is going wrong in the warning summary.
Does pytest plugins work with python2.6