205: pytest autouse fixtures
On a recent episode of PythonBytes, I suggested it's hard to come up with good examples for pytest autouse fixtures, as there aren't very many good reasons to use them. James Falcon was kind enough to reach out and correct me.
In this episode, we describe:
In this episode, we describe:
- what fixtures are
- what autouse fixtures are
- great reasons to use them
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Guest
James Falcon
James Falcon is a software engineer at Canonical, primarily maintaining the cloud-init project. He has spent his career in a variety of Python development and testing roles.