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Update documentation on fixture being invoked more than once in a scope.
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Fix wording in fixtures doc.
jeffreyrack Oct 3, 2018
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog/4058.doc.rst
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Update fixture documentation to specify that a fixture can be invoked twice in the scope it's defined for.
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Expand Up @@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ instance, you can simply declare it:

Finally, the ``class`` scope will invoke the fixture once per test *class*.

.. note::

Pytest will only cache one instance of a fixture at a time.
This means that when using a parametrized fixture, pytest may invoke a fixture more than once in the given scope.


``package`` scope (experimental)
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