Merge pull request #4070 from jeffreyrack/4058-update-fixture-docs

Update documentation to indicate a fixture can be invoked more than once in it's scope.

changelog/4058.doc.rst

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+Update fixture documentation to specify that a fixture can be invoked twice in the scope it's defined for.

doc/en/fixture.rst

@@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ instance, you can simply declare it:
 
 Finally, the ``class`` scope will invoke the fixture once per test *class*.
 
+.. note::
+
+    Pytest will only cache one instance of a fixture at a time.
+    This means that when using a parametrized fixture, pytest may invoke a fixture more than once in the given scope.
+
 
 ``package`` scope (experimental)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^