# tox 1.1: the rapid multi-python test automatizer

I am happy to announce tox 1.1, a bug fix release easing some commong workflows. TOX automates tedious test activities driven from a simple `tox.ini` file, including:

- creation and management of different virtualenv environments with different Python interpreters
- packaging and installing your package into each of them
- running your test tool of choice, be it nose, py.test or unittest2 or other tools such as “sphinx” doc checks
- testing dev packages against each other without needing to upload to PyPI

It works well on virtually all Python interpreters that support virtualenv.

Docs and examples are at:

> http://tox.readthedocs.org

Installation:

> pip install -U tox

Note that code hosting and issue tracking has moved from Google to Bitbucket:

> https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox

The 1.0 release includes contributions and is based on feedback and work from Chris Rose, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Jannis Leidel, Jakob Kaplan-Moss, Sridhar Ratnakumar, Carl Meyer and others. Many thanks!

best, Holger Krekel

## CHANGES

- fix issue5 - don’t require argparse for python versions that have it
- fix issue6 - recreate virtualenv if installing dependencies failed
- fix issue3 - fix example on frontpage
- fix issue2 - warn if a test command does not come from the test environment
- fixed/enhanced: except for initial install always call “-U –no-deps” for installing the sdist package to ensure that a package gets upgraded even if its version number did not change. (reported on TIP mailing list and IRC)
- inline virtualenv.py (1.6.1) script to avoid a number of issues, particularly failing to install python3 environents from a python2 virtualenv installation.