pyfakefs Release Notes
The release versions are PyPi releases.
Version 3.2 (as yet unreleased)
New Features
- Added the CHANGES.md release notes to the release manifest
Fixes
- Rename that only changes case was not possible under Windows (#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
- support for
pathlib
module (Python >= 3.4) - 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) - option to not fake modules named
path
glob.glob
, glob.iglob
: support for recursive
argument (Python >= 3.5)- support for
glob.iglob
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
argumentos.makedirs
: support for exist_ok
argument (Python >= 3.2)- support for fake
io.open()
- support for mount points
- support for hard links
- support for float times (mtime, ctime)
- Windows support:
- support for alternative path separator
- support for case-insensitive filesystems
- support for drive letters and UNC paths
- support for filesystem size
shutil.rmtree
: support for ignore_errors
and onerror
arguments- support for
os.fsync()
and os.fdatasync()
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
- Reading from fake block devices doesn't work (#24)
Version 2.7
Infrastructure
- moved repository from GoogleCode to GitHub, merging 3 projects
- added continous 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
chown
incorrectly accepts non-integer uid/gid arguments- incorrect behavior of
relpath
, abspath
and normpath
on Windows. - Python 3
open
in binary mode not working (#32) 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
As there have been three different projects that have been merged together for release 2.7, no older release notes are given. The following versions are still available in PyPi:
- 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4