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diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d6c597b54 --- /dev/null +++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +pytest-2.3.4: stabilization, more flexible selection via "-k expr" +=========================================================================== + +pytest-2.3.4 is a small stabilization release of the py.test tool +which offers uebersimple assertions, scalable fixture mechanisms +and deep customization for testing with Python. This release +comes with the following fixes and features: + +- make "-k" option accept an expressions the same as with "-m" so that one + can write: -k "name1 or name2" etc. This is a slight usage incompatibility + if you used special syntax like "TestClass.test_method" which you now + need to write as -k "TestClass and test_method" to match a certain + method in a certain test class. +- allow to dynamically define markers via + item.keywords[...]=assignment integrating with "-m" option +- yielded test functions will now have autouse-fixtures active but + cannot accept fixtures as funcargs - it's anyway recommended to + rather use the post-2.0 parametrize features instead of yield, see: + http://pytest.org/latest/example/parametrize.html +- fix autouse-issue where autouse-fixtures would not be discovered + if defined in a a/conftest.py file and tests in a/tests/test_some.py +- fix issue226 - LIFO ordering for fixture teardowns +- fix issue224 - invocations with >256 char arguments now work +- fix issue91 - add/discuss package/directory level setups in example +- fixes related to autouse discovery and calling + +Thanks in particular to Thomas Waldmann for spotting and reporting issues. + +See + + http://pytest.org/ + +for general information. To install or upgrade pytest: + + pip install -U pytest # or + easy_install -U pytest + +best, +holger krekel |