Port regression test 464 to Pytests #6213

Job	Run time
clang-format	22s
vale	51s
rstcheck	24s
cppcheck	9m 24s
mypy	41s
forbidden_types	19s
pylint	39s
lychee_IGNORED	23s
isort	17s
flake8	23s
pydocstyle	30s
copyright_headers	23s
unused_names	17s
black	30s
build_macos (macos-latest, clang, openmp, mpi, python, gsl, ltdl, boost, hdf5, optimize, warning)	11m 9s
build_linux (ubuntu-22.04, gcc, boost, optimize, warning)	11m 58s
build_linux (ubuntu-22.04, gcc, openmp, python, gsl, ltdl, boost, optimize, warning)	17m 56s
build_linux (ubuntu-22.04, gcc, mpi, python, gsl, ltdl, boost, optimize, warning)	18m 56s
build_linux (ubuntu-22.04, gcc, openmp, mpi, python, gsl, ltdl, boost, hdf5, sionlib, libneurosim...	28m 44s
sphinx-rtd	3m 40s
sphinx-conda	0s
	1h 47m 46s

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