pytest-2.8.4

pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than 1100 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.2.

See below for the changes and see docs at:

http://pytest.org

As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via::

pip install -U pytest

Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:

Bruno Oliveira Freya Bruhin Jeff Widman Mehdy Khoshnoody Nicholas Chammas Ronny Pfannschmidt Tim Chan

Happy testing, The py.test Development Team

2.8.4 (compared to 2.8.3)

• fix #1190: deprecated_call() now works when the deprecated function has been already called by another test in the same module. Thanks Mikhail Chernykh for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.

• fix #1198: --pastebin option now works on Python 3. Thanks Mehdy Khoshnoody for the PR.

• fix #1219: --pastebin now works correctly when captured output contains non-ascii characters. Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the PR.

• fix #1204: another error when collecting with a nasty getattr(). Thanks Freya Bruhin for the PR.

• fix the summary printed when no tests did run. Thanks Freya Bruhin for the PR.

• a number of documentation modernizations wrt good practices. Thanks Bruno Oliveira for the PR.