DOC: Fixture docs in pandas/conftest.py (#30917)

pandas/conftest.py

@@ -65,25 +65,28 @@ def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
         pytest.skip("skipping high memory test since --run-high-memory was not set")
 
 
-# Configurations for all tests and all test modules
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def configure_tests():
+    """
+    Configure settings for all tests and test modules.
+    """
     pd.set_option("chained_assignment", "raise")
 
 
-# For running doctests: make np and pd names available
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def add_imports(doctest_namespace):
+    """
+    Make `np` and `pd` names available for doctests.
+    """
     doctest_namespace["np"] = np
     doctest_namespace["pd"] = pd
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=["bsr", "coo", "csc", "csr", "dia", "dok", "lil"])
 def spmatrix(request):
+    """
+    Yields scipy sparse matrix classes.
+    """
     from scipy import sparse
 
     return getattr(sparse, request.param + "_matrix")
@@ -92,8 +95,8 @@ def spmatrix(request):
 @pytest.fixture(params=[0, 1, "index", "columns"], ids=lambda x: f"axis {repr(x)}")
 def axis(request):
     """
-     Fixture for returning the axis numbers of a DataFrame.
-     """
+    Fixture for returning the axis numbers of a DataFrame.
+    """
     return request.param
 
 
@@ -237,6 +240,10 @@ def all_boolean_reductions(request):
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=list(_cython_table))
 def cython_table_items(request):
+    """
+    Yields a tuple of a function and its corresponding name. Correspond to
+    the list of aggregator "Cython functions" used on selected table items.
+    """
     return request.param
 
 
@@ -337,6 +344,9 @@ def writable(request):
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
 def datetime_tz_utc():
+    """
+    Yields the UTC timezone object from the datetime module.
+    """
     return timezone.utc
 
 
@@ -358,6 +368,9 @@ def join_type(request):
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def strict_data_files(pytestconfig):
+    """
+    Returns the configuration for the test setting `--strict-data-files`.
+    """
     return pytestconfig.getoption("--strict-data-files")