Error in example documentation for fixtures

[pytestbot]

Originally reported by: Travis Johnson (BitBucket: conslo, GitHub: conslo)

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This statement: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/src/d91265465608bd3777ab0c882e5d68335d7472dd/doc/en/fixture.txt?at=default#cl-100
is false, the test failure provided for the example fails on the line before the assert 0 for some unrelated reason. Personally I think just removing the assert "merlinux" in msg line and re-producing the test failure output should be good, fixing what appears to be a bug is a bit out of scope.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/636

[The-Compiler]

It seems the docs have changed in the meantime - can you still reproduce this, @conslo?

[merwok]

The issue is still there http://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html#fixtures-as-function-arguments

>       assert "merlinux" in msg
E       TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

[nicoddemus]

Thanks for the report @merwok!

It seems this issue has been fixed already in commit 43d27ec.

You can see the latest version here.

The docs page will be updated after the documentation is re-generated when a new version comes out.

Thanks again!