Access autouse fixture without having to add it to the method argument

Question

I have a session scoped fixture in conftest.py

@pytest.fixture(scope="session",autouse=True)
def log(request):
    testlog = LogUtil(testconf.LOG_NAME).get()
    return testlog

This is loaded and works as expected when a test method is defined in mytest.py as follows:

def test_hello_world(self, log):
        log.info("hello world test")

Is there a way to use the fixture (since its autouse enabled) without having to add the extra "log" parameter to test methods?

def test_hello_world(self):
        log.info("hello world test") #log is not found

@pytest.mark.usefixtures("log")
def test_hello_world2(self):
        log.info("hello world test") #log is not found

def test_hello_world3(self,log):
        log.info("hello world test") #log object is accessible here

Error - NameError: name 'log' is not defined

Answer 1

You typically use autouse fixtures when you want to use them for setup/teardown only.

If you need access to the object the fixture returns, you'll need to specify it as an argument like in your first example.