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Hi All,
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I'm pleased to announce the release of testfixtures 5.0.0 featuring
the following:
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<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: 20.8px;">Move from<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="reference
external" href="http://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration: none;">nose</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="reference
external" href="https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/"
style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration: none;">pytest</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for running tests.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: 20.8px;">Switch from<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="reference
external" href="http://packages.python.org/manuel/"
style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration: none;">manuel</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="reference
external" href="http://sybil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"
style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration: none;">sybil</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for checking examples in
documentation. This introduces a backwards incompatible change
in that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
class="reference internal" style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124);
text-decoration: none;"><code class="xref py py-class docutils
literal" style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0px
1px; font-size: 0.95em; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="pre">FileParser</span></code></span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>replaces the Manuel
plugin that is no longer included.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; line-height: 20.8px;">Add a ‘tick’
method to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
class="reference internal" style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124);
text-decoration: none;"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils
literal" style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0px
1px; font-size: 0.95em; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="pre">test_datetime</span></code></span>,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference
internal" style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration:
none;"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"
style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0px 1px;
font-size: 0.95em; font-weight: bold;"><span class="pre">test_date</span></code></span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="reference
internal" style="color: rgb(53, 95, 124); text-decoration:
none;"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal"
style="background-color: transparent; padding: 0px 1px;
font-size: 0.95em; font-weight: bold;"><span class="pre">test_time</span></code></span>,
to advance the returned point in time, which is particularly
helpful when<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><code
class="docutils literal" style="background-color: rgb(236,
240, 243); padding: 0px 1px; font-size: 0.95em;"><span
class="pre">delta</span></code><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is set to zero.</li>
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The package is on PyPI and a full list of all the links to docs,
issue trackers and the like can be found here:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/Simplistix/testfixtures">https://github.com/Simplistix/testfixtures</a>
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Any questions, please do ask on the Testing in Python list or on the
Simplistix open source mailing list...
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cheers,
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Chris
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