distributing fixtures

[cjw296]

What approaches have worked for people when in comes to distributing pytest fixtures in a Python distribution on pypi?

I have some fixtures that I'm sure I'll end up using across several projects, but while the following works, I can see linters being unhappy with it as an unused import:

from mypackage import myfixture

I can imagine a trivial function might make that happy, but the imports become uglier:

from mypackage import myfixture as myfixture_

def use(fixture: T) -> T:
    return fixture

myfixture = use(myfixture_)

...and even then, I can see type checkers getting confused or unhappy.

What's working for other folks?

[kwist-sgr]

from mypackage import myfixture  # noqa

?

[The-Compiler]

You can turn your fixtures into a installable plugin via the pytest11 entry point, and the fixtures will be available as soon as the plugin is installed.

Alternatively, you can set pytest_plugins in a conftest.py to any installed module that contains fixtures you want pytest to pick up.