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# pytest-2.2.2: bug fixes

pytest-2.2.2 (updated to 2.2.3 to fix packaging issues) is a minor backward-compatible release of the versatile py.test testing tool. It contains bug fixes and a few refinements particularly to reporting with "--collectonly", see below for details.

For general information see here:

> http://pytest.org/

To install or upgrade pytest:

> pip install -U pytest # or easy_install -U pytest

Special thanks for helping on this release to Ronny Pfannschmidt and Ralf Schmitt and the contributors of issues.

best, holger krekel

## Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2

- fix issue101: wrong args to unittest.TestCase test function now produce better output

- fix issue102: report more useful errors and hints for when a test directory was renamed and some pyc/__pycache__ remain

- fix issue106: allow parametrize to be applied multiple times e.g. from module, class and at function level.

- fix issue107: actually perform session scope finalization

- don't check in parametrize if indirect parameters are funcarg names

- add chdir method to monkeypatch funcarg

- fix crash resulting from calling monkeypatch undo a second time

- fix issue115: make --collectonly robust against early failure (missing files/directories)

- "-qq --collectonly" now shows only files and the number of tests in them

- "-q --collectonly" now shows test ids

- allow adding of attributes to test reports such that it also works with distributed testing (no upgrade of pytest-xdist needed)