"""Scope: sharing fixtures across classes, modules, packages or session
Fixtures requiring network access depend on connectivity and are usually time-expensive to create. Extending the previous example, we can add a scope="module" parameter to the @pytest.fixture invocation to cause a smtp_connection fixture function, responsible to create a connection to a preexisting SMTP server, to only be invoked once per test module (the default is to invoke once per test function). Multiple test functions in a test module will thus each receive the same smtp_connection fixture instance, thus saving time. Possible values for scope are: function, class, module, package or session.

The next example puts the fixture function into a separate conftest.py file so that tests from multiple test modules in the directory can access the fixture function:"""

# content of conftest.py
import pytest
import smtplib


@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def smtp_connection():
    return smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587, timeout=5)