pyfakefs Release Notes

The release versions are PyPi releases.

Version 3.4 (as yet unreleased)

This version of pyfakefs does not support Python 2.6. Python 2.6 users must use pyfakefs 3.3 or earlier.

New Features

  • Added support to fake out backported scandir module (#332)
  • Dynamic loading of modules after setup is now on by default and no more considered experimental (see #340)
  • IOError/OSError exception messages in the fake file system now always start with the message issued in the real file system in Unix systems (see #202)

Infrastructure

  • Changed API to be PEP-8 conform #186. Note: The old API is still available.
  • Removed Python 2.6 support #293

Fixes

  • Creating a file with a path ending with path separator did not raise (#320)
  • Fixed more problems related to flush (#302, #300)
  • Fake os.lstat() crashed with several trailing path separators (#342)
  • Fixed handling of path components starting with a drive letter(#337)
  • Symlinks to absolute paths were incorrectly resolved under Windows (#341)
  • Unittest mock didn't work after setUpPyfakefs (#334)
  • os.path.split() and os.path.dirname() gave incorrect results under Windows (#335)

Version 3.3

This is the last release that supports Python 2.6.

New Features

  • The OS specific temp directory is now automatically created in setUp() (related to #191). Note that this may break test code that assumes that the fake file system is completely empty at test start.
  • Added possibility to reload modules and switch on dynamic loading of modules after setup (experimental, see #248)
  • Added possibility to patch modules that import file system modules under another name, for example import os as '_os (#231)
  • Added support for dir_fd argument in several os functions (#206)
  • Added support for open file descriptor as path argument in os.utime, os.chmod, os.chdir, os.chown, os.listdir, os.stat and os.lstat (Python >= 3.3) (#205)
  • Added support for basic modes in fake os.open() (#204)
  • Added fake os.path.samefile implementation (#193)
  • Added support for ns argument in os.utime() (Python >= 3.3) (#192)
  • Added nanosecond time members in os.stat_result (Python >= 3.3) (#196)

Infrastructure

  • Added Travis CI tests for MacOSX (Python 2.7 and 3.6)
  • Added Appveyor CI tests for Windows (Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.6)
  • Added auto-generated documentation for development version on GitHub Pages
  • Removed most of fake_filesystem_shutil implementation, relying on the patched os module instead (#194)
  • Removed fake_tempfile and fake_filesystem_glob, relying on the patched os module instead (#189, #191)

Fixes

  • Multiple fixes of bugs found using TSTL by @agroce (see about 100 issues with the TSTL label)
    • several problems with buffer handling in high-level IO functions
    • several problems with multiple handles on the same file
    • several problems with low-level IO functions
    • incorrect exception (IOError vs OSError) raised in several cases
    • Fake rename did not behave like os.rename in many cases
    • Symlinks have not been considered or incorrectly handled in several functions
    • A nonexistent file that has the same name as the content of the parent object was seen as existing
    • Incorrect error handling during directory creation
    • many fixes for OS-specific behavior
  • Also patch modules that are loaded between __init__() and setUp() (#199)
  • Creating files in read-only directory was possible (#203)

Version 3.2

New Features

  • The errors argument is supported for io.open() and os.open()
  • New methods add_real_file(), add_real_directory() and add_real_paths() make real files and directories appear within the fake file system. File contents are read from the real file system only as needed (#170). See example_test.py for a usage example.
  • Deprecated TestCase.copyRealFile() in favor of add_real_file(). copyRealFile() remains only for backward compatability. Also, some less-popular argument combinations have been disallowed.
  • Added this file you are reading, CHANGES.md, to the release manifest

Infrastructure

  • The mox3 package is no longer a prerequisite--the portion required by pyfakefs has been integrated into pyfakefs (#182)

Fixes

  • Corrected the handling of byte/unicode paths in several functions (#187)
  • FakeShutilModule.rmtree() failed for directories ending with path separator (#177)
  • Case was incorrectly handled for added Windows drives
  • pathlib.glob() incorrectly handled case under MacOS (#167)
  • tox support was broken (#163)
  • On Windows it was not possible to rename a file when only the case of the file name changed (#160)

Version 3.1

New Features

  • Added helper method TestCase.copyRealFile() to copy a file from the real file system to the fake file system. This makes it easy to use template, data and configuration files in your tests.
  • A pytest plugin is now installed with pyfakefs that exports the fake filesystem as pytest fixture fs.

Fixes

  • Incorrect disk usage calculation if too large file created (#155)

Version 3.0

New Features

  • Support for path-like objects as arguments in fake os and os.path modules (Python >= 3.6)
  • Some changes to make pyfakefs work with Python 3.6
  • Added fake pathlib module (Python >= 3.4) (#29)
  • Support for os.replace (Python >= 3.3)
  • os.access, os.chmod, os.chown, os.stat, os.utime: support for follow_symlinks argument (Python >= 3.3)
  • Support for os.scandir (Python >= 3.5) (#119)
  • Option to not fake modules named path (#53)
  • glob.glob, glob.iglob: support for recursive argument (Python >= 3.5) (#116)
  • Support for glob.iglob (#59)

Infrastructure

Fixes

  • shutil.move incorrectly moves directories (#145)
  • Missing support for ‘x’ mode in open (Python >= 3.3) (#147)
  • Incorrect exception type in Posix if path ancestor is a file (#139)
  • Exception handling when using Patcher with py.test (#135)
  • Fake os.listdir returned sorted instead of unsorted entries

Version 2.9

New Features

  • io.open, os.open: support for encoding argument (#120)
  • os.makedirs: support for exist_ok argument (Python >= 3.2) (#98)
  • Support for fake io.open() (#70)
  • Support for mount points (#25)
  • Support for hard links (#75)
  • Support for float times (mtime, ctime)
  • Windows support:
    • support for alternative path separator
    • support for case-insensitive filesystems (#69)
    • support for drive letters and UNC paths
  • Support for filesystem size (#86)
  • shutil.rmtree: support for ignore_errors and onerror arguments (#72)
  • Support for os.fsync() and os.fdatasync() (#73)
  • os.walk: Support for followlinks argument

Fixes

  • shutil functions like make_archive do not work with pyfakefs (#104)
  • File permissions on deletion not correctly handled (#27)
  • shutil.copy error with bytes contents (#105)
  • mtime and ctime not updated on content changes

Version 2.7

Infrastructure

  • Moved repository from GoogleCode to GitHub, merging 3 projects
  • Added continuous integration testing with Travis CI
  • Added usage documentation in project wiki
  • Better support for pypi releases

New Features

  • Added direct unit test support in fake_filesystem_unittest (transparently patches all calls to faked implementations)
  • Added support for doctests
  • Added support for cygwin
  • Better support for Python 3

Fixes

  • os.utime fails to traverse symlinks (#49)
  • chown incorrectly accepts non-integer uid/gid arguments (#30)
  • Reading from fake block devices doesn't work (#24)
  • fake_tempfile is using AddOpenFile incorrectly (#23)
  • Incorrect behavior of relpath, abspath and normpath on Windows.
  • Cygwin wasn't treated as Windows (#37)
  • Python 3 open in binary mode not working (#32)
  • os.remove doesn't work with relative paths (#31)
  • mkstemp returns no valid file descriptor (#19)
  • open methods lack IOError for prohibited operations (#18)
  • Incorrectly resolved relative path (#3)
  • FakeFileOpen keyword args do not match the __builtin__ equivalents (#5)
  • Relative paths not supported (#16, #17))

Older Versions

There are no release notes for releases 2.6 and below. The following versions are still available on PyPi: