testfixtures 6.4.0 released - important bug fix! (again)

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

I'm afraid I found quite a serious problem with unittest.mock.call objects that is important for users of testfixtures' MockPopen helper.

This release includes a monkey patch to fix that issue as well as a facade over both unittest.mock and the rolling backport on pypi, giving preference to the latter, so you don't have to change your code if you need to flip to the rolling backport for a while when waiting to a bug fix to land in Python core.

This release also include:

• Add official support for Python 3.7.
• Drop official support for Python 3.5.
• Better feedback when call() comparisons fail when using compare().
• A re-working of MockPopen to enable it to handle multiple processes being active at the same time.
• Fixes to Mocking dates and times documentation.

The package is on PyPI and a full list of all the links to docs, issue trackers and the like can be found here:

https://github.com/Simplistix/testfixtures

Any questions, please do ask on the Testing in Python list or on the Simplistix open source mailing list...

cheers,

Chris