How to navigate to the fixture definition in Visual Studio Code?

[jonathanmach]

Hi all, I've been searching all over the internet for an answer to this question but I haven't found anything yet.
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For example, in the following test, how to quickly go to the file which my test_blogpost fixture is defined so that I can examine its content?

    def test_not_authorized_to_publish(self, tapp, test_blogpost):
        # User shouldn't be able to publish a blogpost
        res = tapp.post( f"/blogposts/{test_blogpost.id}/publish")
        assert "not authorised" in res.json["error"]
        assert res.status_code == 401

My fixtures live inside a /tests/fixtures module.

tests/
├─ conftest.py
├─ test_blogs.py
├─ fixtures/
│  ├─ blogs.py

My first thought was to manually import fixtures in my test_ files so that I can easily find where they are located. Is it a common practice?

I came across this VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Cameron.vscode-pytest. but it doesn't seem to work for me. Anyone using it successfully?

This article [Modularizing Pytest Fixtures] and this SO answer [In pytest, what is the use of conftest.py files?] were quite helpful.

[jonathanmach]

In large projects with hundreds of fixtures, how to easily navigate to the file where each fixture lives? Something link Ctrl+click to jump to the fixture definition...
I want our developers to be able to quickly inspect our fixtures and learn about other fixtures existing in the same file

[symonk]

Will have a look into VSCode when I am home later, but this works no problems on pycharm, can CTRL+click through to the definition, I'd assume VSCode would of been the same

[jonathanmach]

Oh, great to know that it works fine on Pycharm! There should be a VScode specific setting for this, or an extension