# pytest-2.3.3: integration fixes, py24 suport, `*/**` shown in traceback

pytest-2.3.3 is a another stabilization release of the py.test tool which offers uebersimple assertions, scalable fixture mechanisms and deep customization for testing with Python. Particularly, this release provides:

- integration fixes and improvements related to flask, numpy, nose, unittest, mock
- makes pytest work on py24 again (yes, people sometimes still need to use it)
- show `*,**` args in pytest tracebacks

Thanks to Manuel Jacob, Thomas Waldmann, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Pavel Repin and Andreas Taumoefolau for providing patches and all for the 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

## Changes between 2.3.2 and 2.3.3

- fix issue214 - parse modules that contain special objects like e. g. flask’s request object which blows up on getattr access if no request is active. thanks Thomas Waldmann.
- fix issue213 - allow to parametrize with values like numpy arrays that do not support an __eq__ operator
- fix issue215 - split test_python.org into multiple files
- fix issue148 - @unittest.skip on classes is now recognized and avoids calling setUpClass/tearDownClass, thanks Pavel Repin
- fix issue209 - reintroduce python2.4 support by depending on newer pylib which re-introduced statement-finding for pre-AST interpreters
- nose support: only call setup if its a callable, thanks Andrew Taumoefolau
- fix issue219 - add py2.4-3.3 classifiers to TROVE list
- in tracebacks ,* arg values are now shown next to normal arguments (thanks Manuel Jacob)
- fix issue217 - support mock.patch with pytest’s fixtures - note that you need either mock-1.0.1 or the python3.3 builtin unittest.mock.
- fix issue127 - improve documentation for pytest_addoption() and add a `config.getoption(name)` helper function for consistency.