From 97fdc9a7fef504fc90756a00c1316f02a8ce0bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Hartoto <ahartoto.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:01:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure final collected line doesn't include artifacts

We sometimes would see the following line:
collected 1 item s

just because previous write to the terminal includes number of
characters greater than 'collected 1 item'.
---
 _pytest/terminal.py    | 3 +++
 changelog/2571.trivial | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/2571.trivial

diff --git a/_pytest/terminal.py b/_pytest/terminal.py
index af89d0fc2b2..0bf861ebefa 100644
--- a/_pytest/terminal.py
+++ b/_pytest/terminal.py
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ def report_collect(self, final=False):
         if self.isatty:
             if final:
                 line += " \n"
+                # Rewrite with empty line so we will not see the artifact of
+                # previous write
+                self.rewrite('')
             self.rewrite(line, bold=True)
         else:
             self.write_line(line)
diff --git a/changelog/2571.trivial b/changelog/2571.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..45750f122d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/2571.trivial
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ensure final collected line doesn't include artifacts of previous write.