prepare for the deprecation/removal of the pytest_namespace hook

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

in pytest we are in the process of deprecating the pytest_namespace hook, so this plugin would need a new location for its api that works when that hook is removed

[TvoroG]

Hi! Thanks for informing me!
So one day pytest will stop invoking pytest_namespace and the right way of using these plugins would be just importing them?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

@TvoroG correct

[YannickJadoul]

If anyone else would be encountering the same error as I am: it seems that pytest.lazyfixture is now being added áfter conftest.py (cfr. https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/deprecations.html#pytest-namespace).

So to use lazyfixture to create 'globally-shared fixtures', you will have to import pytest_lazyfixture and use pytest_lazyfixture.lazyfixture (if I got that correctly?)

[jmehnle]

If anyone else would be encountering the same error as I am: it seems that pytest.lazyfixture is now being added áfter conftest.py (cfr. https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/deprecations.html#pytest-namespace).

So to use lazyfixture to create 'globally-shared fixtures', you will have to import pytest_lazyfixture and use pytest_lazyfixture.lazyfixture (if I got that correctly?)

I had the exact same problem: I was trying to use pytest.lazy_fixture in conftest.py. Importing it from pytest_lazyfixture instead worked!

[piotr-dobrogost]

deprecate pytest_namespace alltogether – pytest-dev/pytest#2639
remove pytest namespace hook – pytest-dev/pytest#4421
#4421: Removed the implementation of the pytest_namespace hook. (note from changelog of pytest 4.1.0 (2019-01-05)) –
https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html#id648

[z33kz33k]

@TvoroG I appreciate your hard work. I really do. But, pls, for the love of everything that is good, do update the README. Thanks in advance.

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

closing this as it seems to be resolved