[TIP] py.test: Best way of having a fixture autoused "almost all of the time"
Paul Moore
p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 05:41:06 PDT 2014
I've got a situation where I want to use a py.test autouse fixture to
make sure my tests run in a clean environment. The idea is that I have
a fixture marked as autouse which uses application features to isolate
the test environment from the user's config files. But obviously I
don't want that fixture to activate when actually testing the
functionality it uses!
The simple approach would be to have a structure
tests
tests/isolation
test_isolation.py
tests/the_rest
conftest.py
@fixture(autouse=True)
def isolate_env():
... all the rest of the application tests
but I'm not a huge fan of the extra directory level, for a single
file. Is it possible to say that I *don't* want isolate_env activated
in the test_isolation.py file?
Thanks,
Paul
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