[Tutor] Please help understanding unittest fixtures

[D. Guandalino]

Suppose I have this TestCase class.

class C(TestCase):
   def setUp():
      # very time consuming and resources intensive stuffs.
      pass

   def test_A(self):
       pass
   def test_B(self):
       pass
   def test_C(self):
       pass

The unittest docs says:

> Each instance of the TestCase will only be used to run a single test
> method, so a new fixture is created for each test.


Does this mean that the setUp() method, which is called to prepare the test
fixture, get called for test_A, test_B and test_C? In this case is there a
way to force just one setUp() call?

Thanks.
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