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pyfakefs Release Notes
The released versions correspond to PyPi releases.
Unreleased
Version 4.5.6 (2022-03-17)
Fixes a regression which broke tests with older pytest versions (< 3.9).
Changes
- minimum supported pytest version is now 3.0 (older versions do not work properly with current Python versions)
Fixes
- only skip
_pytest.pathlib
in pytest versions where it is actually present (see #669)
Infrastructure
- add tests with different pytest versions, starting with 3.0
Version 4.5.5 (2022-02-14)
Bugfix release, needed for compatibility with pytest 7.0.
Fixes
- correctly handle file system space for files opened in write mode (see #660)
- correctly handle reading/writing pipes via file (see #661)
- disallow
encoding
argument on binaryopen()
(see #664) - fixed compatibility issue with pytest 7.0.0 (see #666)
Version 4.5.4 (2022-01-12)
Minor bugfix release.
Fixes
Version 4.5.3 (2021-11-08)
Reverts a change in the previous release that could cause a regression.
Changes
os.listdir
,os.scandir
andpathlib.Path.listdir
now return the directory list in a random order only if explicitly configured in the file system (usefs.shuffle_listdir_results = True
withfs
being the file system). In a future version, the default may be changed to better reflect the real filesystem behavior (see #647)
Version 4.5.2 (2021-11-07)
This is a bugfix release.
Changes
os.listdir
,os.scandir
andpathlib.Path.listdir
now return the directory list in a random order (see #638)- the
fcntl
module under Unix is now mocked, e.g. all functions have no effect (this may be changed in the future if needed, see #645)
Fixes
- fixed handling of alternative path separator in
os.path.split
,os.path.splitdrive
andglob.glob
(see #632) - fixed handling of failed rename due to permission error (see #643)
Version 4.5.1 (2021-08-29)
This is a bugfix release.
Fixes
- added handling of path-like where missing
- improved handling of
str
/bytes
paths - suppress all warnings while inspecting loaded modules (see #614)
- do not import pandas and related modules if it is not patched (see #627)
- handle
pathlib.Path.owner()
andpathlib.Path.group
by returning the current user/group name (see #629) - fixed handling of
use_known_patches=False
(could cause an exception) - removed Python 3.5 from metadata to disable installation for that version (see #615)
Infrastructure
Version 4.5.0 (2021-06-04)
Adds some support for Python 3.10 and basic type checking.
Note: This version has been yanked from PyPi as it erroneously allowed installation under Python 3.5.
New Features
- added support for some Python 3.10 features:
- new method
pathlib.Path.hardlink_to
- new
newline
argument inpathlib.Path.write_text
- new
follow_symlinks
argument inpathlib.Path.stat
andpathlib.Path.chmod
- new 'strict' argument in
os.path.realpath
- new method
Changes
- Python 3.5 has reached its end of life in September 2020 and is no longer supported
pathlib2
is still supported, but considered to have the same functionality aspathlib
and is no longer tested separately; the previous behavior broke newerpathlib
features ifpathlib2
was installed (see #592)
Fixes
- correctly handle byte paths in
os.path.exists
(see #595) - Update
fake_pathlib
to support changes coming in Python 3.10 (see - correctly handle UNC paths in
os.path.split
and in directory path evaluation (see #606)
Infrastructure
- added mypy checks in CI (see #599)
Version 4.4.0 (2021-02-24)
Adds better support for Python 3.8 / 3.9.
New Features
- added support for
pathlib.Path.link_to
(new in Python 3.8) (see #580) - added support for
pathlib.Path.readlink
(new in Python 3.9) (see #584) - added
FakeFilesystem.create_link
convenience method which creates intermittent directories (see #580)
Fixes
- fixed handling of pipe descriptors in the fake filesystem (see #581)
- added non-functional argument
effective_ids
toos.access
(see #585) - correctly handle
os.file
for unreadable files (see #588)
Infrastructure
- added automatic documentation build and check-in
Version 4.3.3 (2020-12-20)
Another bugfix release.
Fixes
- Reverted one Windows-specific optimization that can break tests under some conditions (see #573)
- Setting
os
did not resetos.sep
and related variables, fixed null device name, addedos.pathsep
and missingos.path
variables (see #572)
Version 4.3.2 (2020-11-26)
This is a bugfix release that fixes a regression introduced in version 4.2.0.
Fixes
open
calls had not been patched for modules with a name ending with "io" (see #569)
Version 4.3.1 (2020-11-23)
This is an update to the performance release, with more setup caching and the possibility to disable it.
Changes
- Added caching of patched modules to avoid lookup overhead
- Added
use_cache
option andclear_cache
method to be able to deal with unwanted side effects of the newly introduced caching
Infrastructure
- Moved CI builds to GitHub Actions for performance reasons
Version 4.3.0 (2020-11-19)
This is mostly a performance release. The performance of the pyfakefs setup has been decreasing sufficiently, especially with the 4.x releases. This release corrects that by making the most expansive feature optional, and by adding some other performance improvements. This shall decrease the setup time by about a factor of 20, and it shall now be comparable to the performance of the 3.4 release.
Changes
- The
patchfs
decorator now expects a positional argument instead of the keyword argumentsfs
. This avoids confusion with the pytestfs
fixture and conforms to the behavior ofmock.patch
. You may have to adapt the argument order if you use thepatchfs
andmock.patch
decorators together (see #566) - Default arguments that are file system functions are now not patched by
default to avoid a large performance impact. An additional parameter
patch_default_args
has been added that switches this behavior on (see #567). - Added performance improvements in the test setup, including caching the the unpatched modules
Version 4.2.1 (2020-11-02)
This is a bugfix release that fixes a regression issue.
Fixes
- remove dependency of pyfakefs on
pytest
(regression, see #565)
Version 4.2.0 (2020-11-01)
New Features
- add support for the
buffering
parameter inopen
(see #549) - add possibility to patch
io.open_code
using the new argumentpatch_open_code
(since Python 3.8) (see #554) - add possibility to set file system OS via
FakeFilesystem.os
Fixes
- fix check for link in
os.walk
(see #559) - fix handling of real files in combination with
home
if simulating Posix under Windows (see #558) - do not call fake
open
if called from skipped module
(see #552) - do not call fake
pathlib.Path
if called from skipped module
(see #553) - fixed handling of
additional_skip_names
with several module components - allow to open existing pipe file descriptor (see #493)
- do not truncate file on failed flush (see #548)
- suppress deprecation warnings while collecting modules (see #542)
- add support for
os.truncate
andos.ftruncate
(see #545)
Infrastructure
- fixed another problem with CI test scripts not always propagating errors
- make sure pytest will work without pyfakefs installed (see #550)
Version 4.1.0 (2020-07-12)
New Features
- Added some support for pandas (
read_csv
,read_excel
and more), and for django file locks to work with the fake filesystem (see #531)
Fixes
os.expanduser
now works with a bytes path- Do not override global warnings setting in
Deprecator
(see #526) - Make sure filesystem modules in
pathlib
are patched (see #527) - Make sure that alternative path separators are correctly handled under Windows (see #530)
Infrastructure
- Make sure all temporary files from real fs tests are removed
Version 4.0.2 (2020-03-04)
This as a patch release that only builds for Python 3. Note that versions 4.0.0 and 4.0.1 will be removed from PyPi to disable installing them under Python 2.
Fixes
- Do not build for Python 2 (see #524)
Version 4.0.1 (2020-03-03)
This as a bug fix release for a regression bug.
Note: This version has been yanked from PyPi as it erroneously allowed installation under Python 2. This has been fixed in version 4.0.2.
Fixes
- Avoid exception if using
flask-restx
(see #523)
Version 4.0.0 (2020-03-03)
pyfakefs 4.0.0 drops support for Python 2.7. If you still need Python 2.7, you can continue to use pyfakefs 3.7.x.
Note: This version has been yanked from PyPi as it erroneously allowed installation under Python 2. This has been fixed in version 4.0.2.
Changes
- Removed Python 2.7 and 3.4 support (see #492)
New Features
- Added support for handling keyword-only arguments in some
os
functions - Added possibility to pass additional parameters to
fs
pytest fixture - Added automatic patching of default arguments that are file system functions
- Added convenience decorator
patchfs
to patch single functions using the fake filesystem
Fixes
- Added missing
st_ino
inmakedir
(see #515) - Fixed handling of relative paths in
lresolve
/os.lstat
(see #516) - Fixed handling of byte string paths (see #517)
- Fixed
os.walk
if path ends with path separator (see #512) - Fixed handling of empty path in
os.makedirs
(see #510) - Fixed handling of
os.TMPFILE
flag under Linux (see #509 and #511) - Adapted fake
pathlib
to changes in Python 3.7.6/3.8.1
(see #508) - Fixed behavior of
os.makedirs
in write-protected directory (see #507)
Version 3.7.2 (2020-03-02)
This version backports some fixes from master.
Fixes
- Fixed handling of relative paths in
lresolve
/os.lstat
(see #516) - Fixed
os.walk
if path ends with path separator (see #512) - Fixed handling of empty path in
os.makedirs
(see #510) - Fixed handling of
os.TMPFILE
flag under Linux (see #509 and #511) - Fixed behavior of
os.makedirs
in write-protected directory (see #507)
Version 3.7.1 (2020-02-14)
This version adds support for Python 3.7.6 and 3.8.1.
Fixes
- Adapted fake
pathlib
to changes in Python 3.7.6/3.8.1
(see #508) (backported from master)
Version 3.7 (2019-11-23)
This version adds support for Python 3.8.
Note: This is the last pyfakefs version that will support Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 (possible bug fix releases notwithstanding).
New Features
- added support for Python 3.8 (see #504)
- added preliminary support for Windows-specific
os.stat_result
attributestst_file_attributes
andst_reparse_tag
(see #504) - added support for fake
os.sendfile
(Posix only, Python 3 only) (see #504)
Fixes
- support
devnull
in Windows under Python 3.8 (see #504) - fixed side effect of calling
DirEntry.stat()
under Windows (changed st_nlink) (see #502) - fixed problem of fake modules still referenced after a test in modules loaded during the test (see #501 and #427)
- correctly handle missing read permission for parent directory (see #496)
- raise for
os.scandir
with non-existing directory (see #498)
Infrastructure
- fixed CI tests scripts to always propagate errors (see #500)
Version 3.6.1 (2019-10-07)
Fixes
- avoid rare side effect during module iteration in test setup (see #338)
- make sure real OS tests are not executed by default (see #495)
Version 3.6 (2019-06-30)
Changes
- removed unneeded parameter
use_dynamic_patch
New Features
- support for
src_dir_fd
anddst_dir_fd
arguments inos.rename
,os.replace
andos.link
- added possibility to use modules instead of module names for the
additional_skip_names
argument (see #482) - added argument
allow_root_user
toPatcher
andUnitTest
to allow forcing non-root access (see #474) - added basic support for
os.pipe
(see #473) - added support for symlinks in
add_real_directory
- added new public method
add_real_symlink
Infrastructure
- added check for correctly installed Python 3 version in Travis.CI (see #487)
Fixes
- fixed incorrect argument names for some
os
functions - fake
DirEntry
now implementsos.PathLike
in Python >= 3.6 (see #483) - fixed incorrect argument name for
os.makedirs
(see #481) - avoid pytest warning under Python 2.7 (see #466)
- add next to FakeFileWrapper (see #485)
Version 3.5.8 (2019-06-21)
Another bug-fix release that mainly fixes a regression wih Python 2 that has been introduced in version 3.5.3.
Fixes
- regression: patching build-in
open
under Python 2 broke unit tests (see #469) - fixed writing to file added with
add_real_file
(see #470) - fixed argument name of
FakeIOModule.open
(see #471)
Infrastructure
- more changes to run tests using
python setup.py test
under Python 2 regardless ofpathlib2
presence
Version 3.5.7 (2019-02-08)
This is mostly a bug-fix release.
Fixes
- regression:
pathlib
did not get patched in the presence ofpathlib2
(see #467) - fixed errors if running the PyCharm debugger under Python 2 (see #464)
Infrastructure
- do not run real file system tests by default (fixes deployment problem, see #465)
- make tests run if running
python setup.py test
under Python 2
Version 3.5.6 (2019-01-13)
Changes
- import external
pathlib2
andscandir
packages first if present (see #462)
Version 3.5.5 (2018-12-20)
Fixes
- removed shebang from test files to avoid packaging warnings (see #461)
Version 3.5.4 (2018-12-19)
New Features
- added context manager class
Pause
for pause/resume (see #448)
Fixes
- fixed
AttributeError
shown while displayingfs
in a failing pytest in Python 2 - fixed permission handling for root user
- avoid
AttributeError
triggered by modules without__module__
attribute (see #460)
Version 3.5.3 (2018-11-22)
This is a minor release to have a version with passing tests for OpenSUSE packaging.
New Features
- automatically patch file system methods imported as another name like
from os.path import exists as my_exists
, including builtinopen
andio.open
Fixes
- make tests for access time less strict to account for file systems that do not change it immediately (#453)
Version 3.5.2 (2018-11-11)
This is mostly a bug-fix release.
New Features
- added support for pause/resume of patching the file system modules (#448)
- allow to set current group ID, set current user ID and group ID as
st_uid
andst_gid
in new files (#449)
Fixes
- fixed using
modules_to_patch
(regression, see #450) - fixed recursion error on unpickling the fake file system (#445)
- allow trailing path in
add_real_directory
(#446)
Version 3.5 (2018-10-22)
Changes
- This version of pyfakefs does not support Python 3.3. Python 3.3 users must keep using pyfakefs 3.4.3, or upgrade to a newer Python version.
- The deprecation warnings for the old API are now switched on by default.
To switch them off for legacy code, use:
from pyfakefs.deprecator import Deprecator Deprecator.show_warnings = False
New Features
- Improved automatic patching:
- automatically patch methods of a patched file system module imported like
from os.path import exists
(#443) - a module imported as another name (
import os as _os
) is now correctly patched without the need of additional parameters (#434) - automatically patch
Path
if imported likefrom pathlib import Path
(#440) - parameter
patch_path
has been removed fromUnitTest
andPatcher
, the correct patching ofpath
imports is now done automatically (#429) UnitTest
/Patcher
arguments can now also be set insetUpPyfakefs()
(#430)
- automatically patch methods of a patched file system module imported like
- added possibility to set user ID (#431)
- added side_effect option to fake files (#433)
- added some support for extended filesystem attributes under Linux (#423)
- handle
contents=None
increate_file()
as empty contents if size not set (#424) - added
pathlib2
support (#408) (#422) - added support for null device (#418)
- improved error message for "Bad file descriptor in fake filesystem" (#419)
Fixes
- fixed pytest when both pyfakefs and future are installed (#441)
- file timestamps are now updated more according to the real behavior (#435)
- fixed a problem related to patching
shutil
functions usingzipfile
(#427)
Version 3.4.3 (2018-06-13)
This is mostly a bug fix release, mainly for bugs found by @agroce using tstl.
New Features
- added support for path-like objects as arguments in
create_file()
,create_dir()
,create_symlink()
,add_real_file()
andadd_real_directory()
(Python >= 3.6, see #409)
Infrastructure
- moved tests into package
- use README.md in pypi (#358)
Fixes
tell
afterseek
gave incorrect result in append mode (#363)- a failing pytest did not display the test function correctly (#381)
- flushing file contents after truncate was incorrect under some conditions (#412)
readline()
did not work correctly in binary mode (#411)pathlib.Path.resolve()
behaved incorrectly if the path does not exist (#401)closed
attribute was not implemented in fake file (#380)add_real_directory
did not behave correctly for nested paths- the following functions did not behave correctly for paths ending with a
path separator (found by @agroce using tstl):
os.rename
(#400)os.link
(#399, #407)os.rmdir
(#398)os.mkdir
,os.makedirs
(#396)os.rename
(#391, #395, #396, #389, #406)os.symlink
(#371, #390)os.path.isdir
(#387)open
(#362, #369, #397)os.path.lexists
,os.path.islink
(#365, #373, #396)os.remove
(#360, #377, #396)os.stat
(#376)os.path.isfile
(#374)os.path.getsize
(#368)os.lstat
(#366)os.path.exists
(#364)os.readlink
(#359, #372, #392)
Version 3.4.1 (2018-03-18)
This is a bug fix only release.
Fixes
- Missing cleanup after using dynamic patcher let to incorrect behavior of
tempfile
after test execution (regression, see #356) add_real_directory
does not work afterchdir
(see #355)
Version 3.4 (2018-03-08)
This version of pyfakefs does not support Python 2.6. Python 2.6 users must use pyfakefs 3.3 or earlier.
New Features
- Added possibility to map real files or directories to another path in the fake file system (see #347)
- Configuration of
Patcher
andTestCase
: - Added support for file descriptor path parameter in
os.scandir
(Python >= 3.7, Posix only) (see #346) - Added support to fake out backported
scandir
module (#332) IOError
/OSError
exception messages in the fake file system now always start with the message issued in the real file system in Unix systems (see #202)
Infrastructure
- Changed API to be PEP-8 conform (#186). Note: The old API is still available.
- Removed Python 2.6 support (#293)
- Added usage documentation to GitHub Pages
- Added contributing guide
- Added flake8 tests to Travis CI
Fixes
- Links in base path in
os.scandir
shall not be resolved (#350) - Fixed unit tests when run on a computer not having umask set to 0022
- Correctly handle newline parameter in
open()
for Python 3, added support for universal newline mode in Python 2 (#339) - Fixed handling of case-changing rename with symlink under MacOS (#322)
- Creating a file with a path ending with path separator did not raise (#320)
- Fixed more problems related to
flush
(#302, #300) - Correctly handle opening files more than once (#343)
- Fake
os.lstat()
crashed with several trailing path separators (#342) - Fixed handling of path components starting with a drive letter(#337)
- Symlinks to absolute paths were incorrectly resolved under Windows (#341)
- Unittest mock didn't work after setUpPyfakefs (#334)
os.path.split()
andos.path.dirname()
gave incorrect results under Windows (#335)
Version 3.3 (2017-11-12)
This is the last release that supports Python 2.6.
New Features
- The OS specific temp directory is now automatically created in
setUp()
(related to #191). Note that this may break test code that assumes that the fake file system is completely empty at test start. - Added possibility to reload modules and switch on dynamic loading of modules after setup (experimental, see #248)
- Added possibility to patch modules that import file system modules under
another name, for example
import os as '_os
(#231) - Added support for
dir_fd
argument in severalos
functions (#206) - Added support for open file descriptor as path argument in
os.utime
,os.chmod
,os.chdir
,os.chown
,os.listdir
,os.stat
andos.lstat
(Python >= 3.3) (#205) - Added support for basic modes in fake
os.open()
(#204) - Added fake
os.path.samefile
implementation (#193) - Added support for
ns
argument inos.utime()
(Python >= 3.3) (#192) - Added nanosecond time members in
os.stat_result
(Python >= 3.3) (#196)
Infrastructure
- Added Travis CI tests for MacOSX (Python 2.7 and 3.6)
- Added Appveyor CI tests for Windows (Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.6)
- Added auto-generated documentation for development version on GitHub Pages
- Removed most of
fake_filesystem_shutil
implementation, relying on the patchedos
module instead (#194) - Removed
fake_tempfile
andfake_filesystem_glob
, relying on the patchedos
module instead (#189, #191)
Fixes
- Multiple fixes of bugs found using TSTL by @agroce (see about 100 issues
with the
TSTL
label)- several problems with buffer handling in high-level IO functions
- several problems with multiple handles on the same file
- several problems with low-level IO functions
- incorrect exception (
IOError
vsOSError
) raised in several cases - Fake
rename
did not behave likeos.rename
in many cases - Symlinks have not been considered or incorrectly handled in several functions
- A nonexistent file that has the same name as the content of the parent object was seen as existing
- Incorrect error handling during directory creation
- many fixes for OS-specific behavior
- Also patch modules that are loaded between
__init__()
andsetUp()
(#199) - Creating files in read-only directory was possible (#203)
Version 3.2 (2017-05-27)
New Features
- The
errors
argument is supported forio.open()
andos.open()
- New methods
add_real_file()
,add_real_directory()
andadd_real_paths()
make real files and directories appear within the fake file system. File contents are read from the real file system only as needed (#170). Seeexample_test.py
for a usage example. - Deprecated
TestCase.copyRealFile()
in favor ofadd_real_file()
.copyRealFile()
remains only for backward compatability. Also, some less-popular argument combinations have been disallowed. - Added this file you are reading,
CHANGES.md
, to the release manifest
Infrastructure
- The
mox3
package is no longer a prerequisite--the portion required by pyfakefs has been integrated into pyfakefs (#182)
Fixes
- Corrected the handling of byte/unicode paths in several functions (#187)
FakeShutilModule.rmtree()
failed for directories ending with path separator (#177)- Case was incorrectly handled for added Windows drives
pathlib.glob()
incorrectly handled case under MacOS (#167)- tox support was broken (#163)
- On Windows it was not possible to rename a file when only the case of the file name changed (#160)
Version 3.1 (2017-02-11)
New Features
- Added helper method
TestCase.copyRealFile()
to copy a file from the real file system to the fake file system. This makes it easy to use template, data and configuration files in your tests. - A pytest plugin is now installed with pyfakefs that exports the
fake filesystem as pytest fixture
fs
.
Fixes
- Incorrect disk usage calculation if too large file created (#155)
Version 3.0 (2017-01-18)
New Features
- Support for path-like objects as arguments in fake
os
andos.path
modules (Python >= 3.6) - Some changes to make pyfakefs work with Python 3.6
- Added fake
pathlib
module (Python >= 3.4) (#29) - Support for
os.replace
(Python >= 3.3) os.access
,os.chmod
,os.chown
,os.stat
,os.utime
: support forfollow_symlinks
argument (Python >= 3.3)- Support for
os.scandir
(Python >= 3.5) (#119) - Option to not fake modules named
path
(#53) glob.glob
,glob.iglob
: support forrecursive
argument (Python >= 3.5) (#116)- Support for
glob.iglob
(#59)
Infrastructure
Fixes
shutil.move
incorrectly moves directories (#145)- Missing support for 'x' mode in
open
(Python >= 3.3) (#147) - Incorrect exception type in Posix if path ancestor is a file (#139)
- Exception handling when using
Patcher
with py.test (#135) - Fake
os.listdir
returned sorted instead of unsorted entries
Version 2.9 (2016-10-02)
New Features
io.open
,os.open
: support forencoding
argument (#120)os.makedirs
: support forexist_ok
argument (Python >= 3.2) (#98)- Support for fake
io.open()
(#70) - Support for mount points (#25)
- Support for hard links (#75)
- Support for float times (mtime, ctime)
- Windows support:
- support for alternative path separator
- support for case-insensitive filesystems (#69)
- support for drive letters and UNC paths
- Support for filesystem size (#86)
shutil.rmtree
: support forignore_errors
andonerror
arguments (#72)- Support for
os.fsync()
andos.fdatasync()
(#73) os.walk
: Support forfollowlinks
argument
Fixes
shutil
functions likemake_archive
do not work with pyfakefs (#104)- File permissions on deletion not correctly handled (#27)
shutil.copy
error with bytes contents (#105)- mtime and ctime not updated on content changes
Version 2.7
Infrastructure
- Moved repository from GoogleCode to GitHub, merging 3 projects
- Added continuous integration testing with Travis CI
- Added usage documentation in project wiki
- Better support for pypi releases
New Features
- Added direct unit test support in
fake_filesystem_unittest
(transparently patches all calls to faked implementations) - Added support for doctests
- Added support for cygwin
- Better support for Python 3
Fixes
os.utime
fails to traverse symlinks (#49)chown
incorrectly accepts non-integer uid/gid arguments (#30)- Reading from fake block devices doesn't work (#24)
fake_tempfile
is usingAddOpenFile
incorrectly (#23)- Incorrect behavior of
relpath
,abspath
andnormpath
on Windows. - Cygwin wasn't treated as Windows (#37)
- Python 3
open
in binary mode not working (#32) os.remove
doesn't work with relative paths (#31)mkstemp
returns no valid file descriptor (#19)open
methods lackIOError
for prohibited operations (#18)- Incorrectly resolved relative path (#3)
FakeFileOpen
keyword args do not match the__builtin__
equivalents (#5)- Relative paths not supported (#16, #17))
Older Versions
There are no release notes for releases 2.6 and below. The following versions are still available on PyPi: