conftest undocumented

[avdd]

Do you ever read the documentation for some software that goes like this:

... to do this, use <feature of software> ...

and you go "oh, I want to learn about that feature", but you can't find it documented anywhere?

conftest.py is that feature.

[The-Compiler]

I don't follow.

I searched for "conftest" in the docs and found this as the first three matches:

• Installing and Using plugins - talks about loading plugins from conftest.py, not what we want.
• Writing plugins - Tells us conftest.py are local, per-directory pytest plugins, and shows an example of how to define a hook in one.
• fixtures - Tells us we can put fixtures in conftest.py to share them across several test files.

So I'm not sure what you're missing?

[nicoddemus]

Agree with @The-Compiler... @avdd could you please be more specific?

[nicoddemus]

@avdd feel free to reopen this