Pytest 2.9.1 released

Bruno Oliveira nicoddemus at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 17:16:19 EDT 2016


Hi all,

I'm happy to announce that pytest 2;9;1 has been released! This is a
drop-in replacement for 2.9.0 containing just bug-fixes.

As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via:

    pip install -U pytest

See below for the changes and see docs at:

    http://pytest.org

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

    Bruno Oliveira
    Daniel Hahler
    Dmitry Malinovsky
    Florian Bruhin
    Floris Bruynooghe
    Matt Bachmann
    Ronny Pfannschmidt
    TomV
    Vladimir Bolshakov
    Zearin
    palaviv


Happy testing,
The py.test Development Team


2.9.1 (compared to 2.9.0)
-------------------------

**Bug Fixes**

* Improve error message when a plugin fails to load.
  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.

* Fix (`#1178 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1178>`_):
  ``pytest.fail`` with non-ascii characters raises an internal pytest error.
  Thanks `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.

* Fix (`#469`_): junit parses report.nodeid incorrectly, when params IDs
  contain ``::``. Thanks `@tomviner`_ for the PR (`#1431`_).

* Fix (`#578 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/578>`_):
SyntaxErrors
  containing non-ascii lines at the point of failure generated an internal
  py.test error.
  Thanks `@asottile`_ for the report and `@nicoddemus`_ for the PR.

* Fix (`#1437`_): When passing in a bytestring regex pattern to parameterize
  attempt to decode it as utf-8 ignoring errors.

* Fix (`#649`_): parametrized test nodes cannot be specified to run on the
command line.


.. _#1437: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1437
.. _#469: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/469
.. _#1431: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1431
.. _#649: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/649

.. _ at asottile: https://github.com/asottile


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