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[1.2.X] Clarified some markup in the discussion of fixture loading in testcases. 

Backport of r13610 from trunk.

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@ -1050,23 +1050,25 @@ A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a
database. For example, if your site has user accounts, you might set up a
fixture of fake user accounts in order to populate your database during tests.
The most straightforward way of creating a fixture is to use the ``manage.py
dumpdata`` command. This assumes you already have some data in your database.
See the :djadmin:`dumpdata documentation<dumpdata>` for more details.
The most straightforward way of creating a fixture is to use the
:djadmin:`manage.py dumpdata <dumpdata>` command. This assumes you
already have some data in your database. See the :djadmin:`dumpdata
documentation<dumpdata>` for more details.
.. note::
If you've ever run ``manage.py syncdb``, you've already used a fixture
without even knowing it! When you call ``syncdb`` in the database for
the first time, Django installs a fixture called ``initial_data``.
This gives you a way of populating a new database with any initial data,
such as a default set of categories.
If you've ever run :djadmin:`manage.py syncdb<syncdb>`, you've
already used a fixture without even knowing it! When you call
:djadmin:`syncdb` in the database for the first time, Django
installs a fixture called ``initial_data``. This gives you a way
of populating a new database with any initial data, such as a
default set of categories.
Fixtures with other names can always be installed manually using the
``manage.py loaddata`` command.
Fixtures with other names can always be installed manually using
the :djadmin:`manage.py loaddata<loaddata>` command.
Once you've created a fixture and placed it in a ``fixtures`` directory in one
of your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`, you can use it in your unit tests by
specifying a ``fixtures`` class attribute on your ``django.test.TestCase``
specifying a ``fixtures`` class attribute on your :class:`django.test.TestCase`
subclass::
from django.test import TestCase