pytest Quick Start Guide

Renaming fixtures

The @pytest.fixture decorator accepts a name parameter that can be used to specify a name for the fixture, different from the fixture function:

@pytest.fixture(name="venv_dir")def _venv_dir():    ...

This is useful, because there are some annoyances that might affect users when using fixtures declared in the same module as the test functions that use them:

• If users forget to declare the fixture in the parameter list of a test function, they will get a NameError instead of the fixture function object (because they are in the same module).
• Some linters complain that the test function parameter is shadowing the fixture function.

You might adopt this as a good practice in your team if the previous annoyances are frequent. Keep ...