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13851	Clarification of the 'Fixture loading' section of the unit test documentation	igloo	nobody	"The documentation could do with elaborating on the loading of fixtures by the testing framework.

Quoth the docs:

""Once you've created a fixture and placed it in a fixtures directory in one of your INSTALLED_APPS, you can use it in your unit tests by specifying a fixtures  class attribute on your django.test.TestCase subclass:""

[...] 
{{{
class AnimalTestCase(TestCase):
    fixtures = ['mammals.json', 'birds']

}}}

What that says to me is, I can put any old file in the 'fixtures' directory and load it up in the test case by referring to it by filename, eg., 'mammals.json' - however, with the default behaviour, this isn't the case. The fixtures have to be in a file called 'initial_data'. I spent about 10 minutes tearing my hair out over this one!  I know it does mention  this in the box directly above the bit I've quoted, but is there any chance we can make it a bit clearer?"		closed	Documentation	1.2		invalid	fixtures, testing framework, unit tests, initial_data		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0