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For information about fixtures, see fixtures{.interpreted-text
role=“ref”}. To see a complete list of available fixtures (add -v to
also see fixtures with leading _), type :
$ pytest -q --fixtures
cache
Return a cache object that can persist state between testing sessions.
cache.get(key, default)
cache.set(key, value)
Keys must be ``/`` separated strings, where the first part is usually the
name of your plugin or application to avoid clashes with other cache users.
Values can be any object handled by the json stdlib module.
capsys
Enable text capturing of writes to ``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr``.
The captured output is made available via ``capsys.readouterr()`` method
calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
``out`` and ``err`` will be ``text`` objects.
capsysbinary
Enable bytes capturing of writes to ``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr``.
The captured output is made available via ``capsysbinary.readouterr()``
method calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
``out`` and ``err`` will be ``bytes`` objects.
capfd
Enable text capturing of writes to file descriptors ``1`` and ``2``.
The captured output is made available via ``capfd.readouterr()`` method
calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
``out`` and ``err`` will be ``text`` objects.
capfdbinary
Enable bytes capturing of writes to file descriptors ``1`` and ``2``.
The captured output is made available via ``capfd.readouterr()`` method
calls, which return a ``(out, err)`` namedtuple.
``out`` and ``err`` will be ``byte`` objects.
doctest_namespace [session scope]
Fixture that returns a :py:class:`dict` that will be injected into the
namespace of doctests.
pytestconfig [session scope]
Session-scoped fixture that returns the :class:`_pytest.config.Config` object.
Example::
def test_foo(pytestconfig):
if pytestconfig.getoption("verbose") > 0:
...
record_property
Add extra properties to the calling test.
User properties become part of the test report and are available to the
configured reporters, like JUnit XML.
The fixture is callable with ``name, value``. The value is automatically
XML-encoded.
Example::
def test_function(record_property):
record_property("example_key", 1)
record_xml_attribute
Add extra xml attributes to the tag for the calling test.
The fixture is callable with ``name, value``. The value is
automatically XML-encoded.
record_testsuite_property [session scope]
Record a new ``<property>`` tag as child of the root ``<testsuite>``.
This is suitable to writing global information regarding the entire test
suite, and is compatible with ``xunit2`` JUnit family.
This is a ``session``-scoped fixture which is called with ``(name, value)``. Example:
.. code-block:: python
def test_foo(record_testsuite_property):
record_testsuite_property("ARCH", "PPC")
record_testsuite_property("STORAGE_TYPE", "CEPH")
``name`` must be a string, ``value`` will be converted to a string and properly xml-escaped.
.. warning::
Currently this fixture **does not work** with the
`pytest-xdist <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-xdist>`__ plugin. See issue
`#7767 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/7767>`__ for details.
caplog
Access and control log capturing.
Captured logs are available through the following properties/methods::
* caplog.messages -> list of format-interpolated log messages
* caplog.text -> string containing formatted log output
* caplog.records -> list of logging.LogRecord instances
* caplog.record_tuples -> list of (logger_name, level, message) tuples
* caplog.clear() -> clear captured records and formatted log output string
monkeypatch
A convenient fixture for monkey-patching.
The fixture provides these methods to modify objects, dictionaries or
os.environ::
monkeypatch.setattr(obj, name, value, raising=True)
monkeypatch.delattr(obj, name, raising=True)
monkeypatch.setitem(mapping, name, value)
monkeypatch.delitem(obj, name, raising=True)
monkeypatch.setenv(name, value, prepend=False)
monkeypatch.delenv(name, raising=True)
monkeypatch.syspath_prepend(path)
monkeypatch.chdir(path)
All modifications will be undone after the requesting test function or
fixture has finished. The ``raising`` parameter determines if a KeyError
or AttributeError will be raised if the set/deletion operation has no target.
recwarn
Return a :class:`WarningsRecorder` instance that records all warnings emitted by test functions.
See http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html for information
on warning categories.
tmpdir_factory [session scope]
Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.TempdirFactory` instance for the test session.
tmp_path_factory [session scope]
Return a :class:`_pytest.tmpdir.TempPathFactory` instance for the test session.
tmpdir
Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
directory.
The returned object is a `py.path.local`_ path object.
.. _`py.path.local`: https://py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/path.html
tmp_path
Return a temporary directory path object which is unique to each test
function invocation, created as a sub directory of the base temporary
directory.
The returned object is a :class:`pathlib.Path` object.
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