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# pytest-2.8.2: bug fixes

pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than 1100 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. This release is supposed to be drop-in compatible to 2.8.1.

See below for the changes and see docs at:

> http://pytest.org

As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via:

    pip install -U pytest

Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them:

> Bruno Oliveira Demian Brecht Freya Bruhin Ionel Cristian Mărieș Raphael Pierzina Ronny Pfannschmidt holger krekel

Happy testing, The py.test Development Team

## 2.8.2 (compared to 2.7.2)

- fix #1085: proper handling of encoding errors when passing encoded byte strings to pytest.parametrize in Python 2. Thanks Themanwithoutaplan for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.

- fix #1087: handling SystemError when passing empty byte strings to pytest.parametrize in Python 3. Thanks Paul Kehrer for the report and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.

- fix #995: fixed internal error when filtering tracebacks where one entry was generated by an exec() statement. Thanks Daniel Hahler, Ashley C Straw, Philippe Gauthier and Pavel Savchenko for contributing and Bruno Oliveira for the PR.