Variable is caching the value for each test

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Hello All,

I have the below line in my robot test file.
press keys {email_id} {mail_val}

${mail_val} is getting the value from Data.py file. Below is the snippet from Data.py.
mail_val = “Test” + get_random_string(6) + “@mailinator.com”

My robot file contains 4 tests, when running the file, test 1 is calling the mail_val and use the email address in the script.
When test 2 is executing , it uses the same email used for test 1 - not creating another email address with get_random_string function.
i want different email address to be used for each test, please help me in achieving this.

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That is done only once when the test run starts. You have to transform that into a Python function, or in an User Keyword, or even in an Evaluate step, … or using the Faker library…

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