py.test-1.3.0: new options, per-plugin hooks, better reporting

[holger krekel]

py.test/pylib 1.3.0: new options, per-plugin hooks, fixes ... 
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The py.test/pylib 1.3.0 release introces new options, bug fixes and improved
compatibility with Python3 and Jython-2.5.1 on Windows.   If you already use
py-1.2 chances are you can just use py-1.3.0.  See the below CHANGELOG for more
details and http://pylib.org/install.html for installation instructions. 

py.test is an advanced automated testing tool working with Python2,
Python3, Jython and PyPy versions on all major operating systems.  It
offers a no-boilerplate testing approach and has inspired other testing
tools and enhancements in the standard Python library for more than five
years.  It has a simple and extensive plugin architecture, configurable
reporting and provides unique ways to make it fit to your testing
process and needs.  

See http://pytest.org for more info.

cheers and have fun,

holger krekel

Changes between 1.2.1 and 1.3.0
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- deprecate --report option in favour of a new shorter and easier to
  remember -r option: it takes a string argument consisting of any
  combination of 'xfsX' characters.  They relate to the single chars
  you see during the dotted progress printing and will print an extra line 
  per test at the end of the test run.  This extra line indicates the exact
  position or test ID that you directly paste to the py.test cmdline in order
  to re-run a particular test. 

- allow external plugins to register new hooks via the new 
  pytest_addhooks(pluginmanager) hook.  The new release of
  the pytest-xdist plugin for distributed and looponfailing 
  testing requires this feature. 

- add a new pytest_ignore_collect(path, config) hook to allow projects and
  plugins to define exclusion behaviour for their directory structure - 
  for example you may define in a conftest.py this method::

        def pytest_ignore_collect(path):
            return path.check(link=1)

  to prevent even collection of any tests in symlinked dirs. 

- new pytest_pycollect_makemodule(path, parent) hook for
  allowing customization of the Module collection object for a 
  matching test module. 

- extend and refine xfail mechanism: 
  ``@py.test.mark.xfail(run=False)`` do not run the decorated test
  ``@py.test.mark.xfail(reason="...")`` prints the reason string in xfail summaries
  specifiying ``--runxfail`` on command line virtually ignores xfail markers

- expose (previously internal) commonly useful methods: 
  py.io.get_terminal_with() -> return terminal width
  py.io.ansi_print(...) -> print colored/bold text on linux/win32
  py.io.saferepr(obj) -> return limited representation string

- expose test outcome related exceptions as py.test.skip.Exception, 
  py.test.raises.Exception etc., useful mostly for plugins
  doing special outcome interpretation/tweaking

- (issue85) fix junitxml plugin to handle tests with non-ascii output

- fix/refine python3 compatibility (thanks Benjamin Peterson)

- fixes for making the jython/win32 combination work, note however: 
  jython2.5.1/win32 does not provide a command line launcher, see
  http://bugs.jython.org/issue1491 . See pylib install documentation
  for how to work around. 

- fixes for handling of unicode exception values and unprintable objects

- (issue87) fix unboundlocal error in assertionold code 

- (issue86) improve documentation for looponfailing

- refine IO capturing: stdin-redirect pseudo-file now has a NOP close() method

- ship distribute_setup.py version 0.6.10 

- added links to the new capturelog and coverage plugins