import pytest @pytest.fixture(scope='function') def pyplot(): """Setup and teardown fixture for matplotlib. This fixture checks if we can import matplotlib. If not, the tests will be skipped. Otherwise, we setup matplotlib backend and close the figures after running the functions. Returns ------- pyplot : module The ``matplotlib.pyplot`` module. """ matplotlib = pytest.importorskip('matplotlib') matplotlib.use('agg') pyplot = pytest.importorskip('matplotlib.pyplot') yield pyplot pyplot.close('all')