Hey all,

I have two queries about the request fixture. First one could be a possible documentation change, second is either a bug or my ignorance.

1. I noticed while working with indirect parametrization that the docs assume that the user knows request is a fixture and that it is the only parameter name allowed. I only found this out by reading a stack overflow comment (under accepted answer). Perhaps in the docs here one could state that request is a fixture.

2. Can one cleanly use a fixture for both parametrized and unparametrized tests, if the fixture includes request for use with indirect parametrization? The issue I am having is that I have a fixture that is creating some dummy data, and I want to use this dummy data for simple tests and also parametrized tests. What I reaqlly want I guess is a way to cleanly have request to have a default value. Code example from the pytest docs:

   import pytest
   
   
   @pytest.fixture
   def fixt(request):
       return request.param * 3
   
   
   @pytest.mark.parametrize("fixt", ["a", "b"], indirect=True)
   def test_indirect(fixt):
       assert len(fixt) == 3
   
   
   def test_direct(fixt):  # fails because request.param doesn't exist
       assert len(fixt) == 3

   Traceback:

   test setup failed
   request = <SubRequest 'fixt' for <Function test_direct>>
   
       @pytest.fixture
       def fixt(request):
   >       return request.param * 3
   E       AttributeError: 'SubRequest' object has no attribute 'param'

   My current fix is to add this check to the fixture:

   @pytest.fixture
   def fixt(request):
       if hasattr(request, "param"):
           p = request.param
       else:
           p = "x"  # this is my default value
       return p * 3

pytest and operating system versions

pytest 8.3.4
OS: Microsoft Windows 10