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enabling doctest-modules causes fixture to not be found #14533

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With pytest dev (starting at: 46478fa) the following example passes with a default pytest run but errors if --doctest-modules is enabled.

import pytest

@pytest.fixture
def foo_fixture():
    return 1

def test_foo(foo_fixture):
    assert foo_fixture

The error is:

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ERROR at setup of test_foo _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
file /projects/251117_pytest_dev/foo/test_foo.py, line 10
  def test_foo(foo_fixture):
E       fixture 'foo_fixture' not found
>       available fixtures: _syrupy_apply_ide_patches, cache, capfd, capfdbinary, caplog, capsys, capsysbinary, capteesys, doctest_namespace, monkeypatch, pytestconfig, record_property, record_testsuite_property, record_xml_attribute, recwarn, snapshot, subtests, tmp_path, tmp_path_factory, tmpdir, tmpdir_factory
>       use 'pytest --fixtures [testpath]' for help on them.

/projects/251117_pytest_dev/foo/test_foo.py:10

The prior commit (543b11f) passes in with --doctest-modules.

pip list
Package           Version                 Editable project location
----------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------
aiohappyeyeballs  2.6.2
aiohttp           3.13.5
aiosignal         1.4.0
asdf              5.3.1.dev86+g71187c0fc  /projects/251117_pytest_dev/asdf
asdf_standard     1.5.0
attrs             26.1.0
frozenlist        1.8.0
fsspec            2026.4.0
idna              3.17
iniconfig         2.3.0
jmespath          1.1.0
lz4               4.4.5
multidict         6.7.1
numpy             2.4.6
packaging         25.0
pip               24.0
pluggy            1.6.0
propcache         0.5.2
psutil            7.2.2
Pygments          2.19.2
pytest            9.1.0.dev386+g46478fad5 /projects/251117_pytest_dev/pytest
PyYAML            6.0.3
semantic-version  2.10.0
syrupy            5.2.0
typing_extensions 4.15.0
yarl              1.24.2

Tested with pytest dev (commits above) mac os.

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