diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 6a9f938..347cc7d 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ no_windows = pytest.mark.skipif(
 )
 
 
+def repodir():
+    """Return the abspath to the repo directory.
+    """
+    dirname = os.path.dirname
+    dirpath = os.path.abspath(
+        dirname(dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
+        )
+    return dirpath
+
+
 def pytest_addoption(parser):
     parser.addoption(
         "--ll", action="store", dest='loglevel',
diff --git a/tests/test_debugger.py b/tests/test_debugger.py
index 071febf..fe357e8 100644
--- a/tests/test_debugger.py
+++ b/tests/test_debugger.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from os import path
 import pytest
 import pexpect
 
-from .test_docs_examples import repodir
+from conftest import repodir
 
 
 # TODO:
diff --git a/tests/test_docs_examples.py b/tests/test_docs_examples.py
index 67b34ee..73e6a69 100644
--- a/tests/test_docs_examples.py
+++ b/tests/test_docs_examples.py
@@ -11,15 +11,7 @@ import shutil
 
 import pytest
 
-
-def repodir():
-    """Return the abspath to the repo directory.
-    """
-    dirname = os.path.dirname
-    dirpath = os.path.abspath(
-        dirname(dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
-        )
-    return dirpath
+from conftest import repodir
 
 
 def examples_dir():