Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.0 of unittest2. * unittest2 on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 * Article introducing unittest2: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/unittest2.shtml * Development docs for unittest (new features documented) <http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html * Mercurial Development Repository: http://hg.python.org/unittest2 unittest2 is an enhanced version of unittest including a standard test runner (automatic test discovery), class and module level fixtures (``setUpClass`` / ``setUpModule`` etc), many powerful new assert methods, better resource management with ``addCleanups`` and a host of other new features. These new features are *all* going into the Python version of unittest in Python 2.7 and Python 3.2. The point of unittest2 is that it works with Python 2.4 - 2.6; you can use it now. The latest release is 0.4.0, which roughly equates to the feature set that will be in unittest in Python 2.7 beta 1 which is due out any minute now. The last public release of unittest2 I announced was version 0.2.0 and there have been several new and important features since then. For a good roundup of the new features, see my blog entry: * http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2010_04_03.shtml#e1171 The full changelog for versions 0.3.0 and 0.4.0: 2010/04/08 - 0.4.0 ------------------ Addition of ``removeHandler`` for removing the control-C handler. ``delta`` keyword argument for ``assertAlmostEqual`` and ``assertNotAlmostEqual``. Addition of -b command line option (and ``TestResult.buffer``) for buffering stdout / stderr during test runs. Addition of ``TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches``. Allow test discovery using dotted module names instead of a path. All imports requiring the signal module are now optional, for compatiblity with IronPython (or other platforms without this module). Tests fixed to be compatible with nosetest. 2010/03/26 - 0.3.0 ------------------ ``assertSameElements`` removed and ``assertItemsEqual`` added; assert that sequences contain the same elements. Addition of -f/--failfast command line option, stopping test run on first failure or error. Addition of -c/--catch command line option for better control-C handling during test runs. Added ``BaseTestSuite``, for use by frameworks that don't want to support shared class and module fixtures. Skipped test methods no longer have ``setUp`` and ``tearDown`` called around them. Faulty ``load_tests`` functions no longer halt test discovery. Using non-strings for failure messages now works. Potential for ``UnicodeDecodeError`` whilst creating failure messages fixed. Split out monolithic test module into a package. BUGFIX: Correct usage message now shown for unit2 scripts. BUGFIX: ``__unittest`` in module globals trims frames from that module in reported stacktraces. All the best, Michael Foord -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog