Fixture is not overriden in the child conftest.py when running individual test file

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Originally reported by: Oleg Pidsadnyi (BitBucket: olegp, GitHub: olegp)

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If I have the package with the conftest.py:

#!python

from pytest import fixture

@fixture
def foo():
    return 'parent'

And I have subfolder with the conftest.py:

#!python

from pytest import fixture

@fixture
def foo():
    return 'child'

And the test_foo.py in the same subfolder:

#!python

def test_foo(foo):
    assert foo == 'child'

It works when I simply run py.test in the parent folder.

It doesn't work when I run py.test subfolder/test_foo.py

For some reason the value is 'parent', not 'child'

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/294

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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could you spell out the filenames and directory names?

Also do you have an init.py in your sub folder?

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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at best just make a zip/tar file to allow reproduction.

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Original comment by Oleg Pidsadnyi (BitBucket: olegp, GitHub: olegp):

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Yes, it has init.py. The subfolder is just subfolder, doesn't matter.

It works when I run it from the 294 directory:

#!bash

cd 294
py.test

And it doesn't when:

#!bash

cd 294
py.test tests/subfolder/test_foo.py

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Original comment by Oleg Pidsadnyi (BitBucket: olegp, GitHub: olegp):

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Holger, maybe you can give a little hint where to look at?
I've tried to debug and the fixturedefs were ordered reversed. Can you point to the place where is it being collected. We are really suffering from this bug. You also mentioned that there's some fork where it is addressed by some guy. Can we have a look?

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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The PR is living here: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/pull-request/30/load-conftest-files-in-the-correct-order/diff . Would be good if you try it and maybe help to get it into mergeable state.

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Original comment by Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub):

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This is now resolved (see issue300)