From 112204cf8d292ee3221d46fa16d4f22334682e6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:15:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix non-sensical error message (#9077)

* Fix non-sensical error message

Introduced in 12de92cd2b818906d342dbdfaf96999887bc9658 / #7698

* Add a test

* Put the unit back into unittest

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---
 changelog/9077.bugfix.rst  |  1 +
 src/_pytest/fixtures.py    |  2 +-
 testing/python/fixtures.py | 15 +++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog/9077.bugfix.rst

diff --git a/changelog/9077.bugfix.rst b/changelog/9077.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcee5d385
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/9077.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed confusing error message when ``request.fspath`` / ``request.path`` was accessed from a session-scoped fixture.
diff --git a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
index 79b7c877f..de27abdb7 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/fixtures.py
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ class FixtureRequest:
     @property
     def path(self) -> Path:
         if self.scope not in ("function", "class", "module", "package"):
-            raise AttributeError(f"module not available in {self.scope}-scoped context")
+            raise AttributeError(f"path not available in {self.scope}-scoped context")
         # TODO: Remove ignore once _pyfuncitem is properly typed.
         return self._pyfuncitem.path  # type: ignore
 
diff --git a/testing/python/fixtures.py b/testing/python/fixtures.py
index e634dab45..ea66f50f0 100644
--- a/testing/python/fixtures.py
+++ b/testing/python/fixtures.py
@@ -1093,6 +1093,21 @@ class TestRequestBasic:
         reprec.assertoutcome(passed=2)
 
 
+class TestRequestSessionScoped:
+    @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+    def session_request(self, request):
+        return request
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", ["path", "fspath", "module"])
+    def test_session_scoped_unavailable_attributes(self, session_request, name):
+        expected = "path" if name == "fspath" else name
+        with pytest.raises(
+            AttributeError,
+            match=f"{expected} not available in session-scoped context",
+        ):
+            getattr(session_request, name)
+
+
 class TestRequestMarking:
     def test_applymarker(self, pytester: Pytester) -> None:
         item1, item2 = pytester.getitems(