27th April 2020
TIL
Session-scoped temporary directories in pytest
— I habitually use the `tmpdir` fixture in pytest to get a temporary directory that will be cleaned up after each test, but that doesn't work with `scope="session"` - which can be used to ensure an expensive fixture is run only once per test session and the generated content is used for multiple tests.
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