1pytest-2.3.5: bug fixes and little improvements 2=========================================================================== 3 4pytest-2.3.5 is a maintenance release with many bug fixes and little 5improvements. See the changelog below for details. No backward 6compatibility issues are foreseen and all plugins which worked with the 7prior version are expected to work unmodified. Speaking of which, a 8few interesting new plugins saw the light last month: 9 10- pytest-instafail: show failure information while tests are running 11- pytest-qt: testing of GUI applications written with QT/Pyside 12- pytest-xprocess: managing external processes across test runs 13- pytest-random: randomize test ordering 14 15And several others like pytest-django saw maintenance releases. 16For a more complete list, check out 17https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pytest&submit=search. 18 19For general information see: 20 21 http://pytest.org/ 22 23To install or upgrade pytest: 24 25 pip install -U pytest # or 26 easy_install -U pytest 27 28Particular thanks to Floris, Ronny, Benjamin and the many bug reporters 29and fix providers. 30 31may the fixtures be with you, 32holger krekel 33 34 35Changes between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 36----------------------------------- 37 38- never consider a fixture function for test function collection 39 40- allow re-running of test items / helps to fix pytest-reruntests plugin 41 and also help to keep less fixture/resource references alive 42 43- put captured stdout/stderr into junitxml output even for passing tests 44 (thanks Adam Goucher) 45 46- Issue 265 - integrate nose setup/teardown with setupstate 47 so it doesnt try to teardown if it did not setup 48 49- issue 271 - dont write junitxml on slave nodes 50 51- Issue 274 - dont try to show full doctest example 52 when doctest does not know the example location 53 54- issue 280 - disable assertion rewriting on buggy CPython 2.6.0 55 56- inject "getfixture()" helper to retrieve fixtures from doctests, 57 thanks Andreas Zeidler 58 59- issue 259 - when assertion rewriting, be consistent with the default 60 source encoding of ASCII on Python 2 61 62- issue 251 - report a skip instead of ignoring classes with init 63 64- issue250 unicode/str mixes in parametrization names and values now works 65 66- issue257, assertion-triggered compilation of source ending in a 67 comment line doesn't blow up in python2.5 (fixed through py>=1.4.13.dev6) 68 69- fix --genscript option to generate standalone scripts that also 70 work with python3.3 (importer ordering) 71 72- issue171 - in assertion rewriting, show the repr of some 73 global variables 74 75- fix option help for "-k" 76 77- move long description of distribution into README.rst 78 79- improve docstring for metafunc.parametrize() 80 81- fix bug where using capsys with pytest.set_trace() in a test 82 function would break when looking at capsys.readouterr() 83 84- allow to specify prefixes starting with "_" when 85 customizing python_functions test discovery. (thanks Graham Horler) 86 87- improve PYTEST_DEBUG tracing output by puting 88 extra data on a new lines with additional indent 89 90- ensure OutcomeExceptions like skip/fail have initialized exception attributes 91 92- issue 260 - don't use nose special setup on plain unittest cases 93 94- fix issue134 - print the collect errors that prevent running specified test items 95 96- fix issue266 - accept unicode in MarkEvaluator expressions 97 98