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Breaking change introduced in MINOR version upgrade

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Hi, I’ve just noticed that there are breaking changes in pytest-mock when upgrading from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0.

The change I’ve noticed is that importing MockFixture from pytest_mock now breaks. I understand that the MockerFixture type were introduced in 3.3.0 but MockFixture was importable from the public API and it would be best to keep it that way for backwards compatibility in 3.x releases. I would only expect breaking of the public API in a MAJOR 4.x release.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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nicoddemuscommented, Aug 24, 2020

Thanks for the clarification!

Indeed, did not really foresee this use case. Not much can be done at this point thought.

Thanks anyway for the report!

Cheers,

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allrod5commented, Aug 24, 2020

@nicoddemus this is not a big issue for me anyway, though if this affects many users a 3.3.1 version could be released fixing that.

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