We want to export `pytest.MonkeyPatch` for the purpose of
type-annotating the `monkeypatch` fixture. For other fixtures we export
in this way, we also make direct construction of them (e.g.
`MonkeyPatch()`) private. But unlike the others, `MonkeyPatch` is also
widely used directly already, mostly because the `monkeypatch` fixture
only works in `function` scope (issue #363), but also in other cases. So
making it private will be annoying and we don't offer a decent
replacement yet.
So, let's just make direct construction public & documented.
This indicates at least for people using type checkers that these
classes are not designed for inheritance and we make no stability
guarantees regarding inheritance of them.
Currently this doesn't show up in the docs. Sphinx does actually support
`@final`, however it only works when imported directly from `typing`,
while we import from `_pytest.compat`.
In the future there might also be a `@sealed` decorator which would
cover some more cases.
This makes mypy raise an error whenever it detects code which is
statically unreachable, e.g.
x: int
if isinstance(x, str):
... # Statement is unreachable [unreachable]
This is really neat and finds quite a few logic and typing bugs.
Sometimes the code is intentionally unreachable in terms of types, e.g.
raising TypeError when a function is given an argument with a wrong
type. In these cases a `type: ignore[unreachable]` is needed, but I
think it's a nice code hint.
* Update setup.py requires and classifiers
* Drop Python 2.7 and 3.4 from CI
* Update docs dropping 2.7 and 3.4 support
* Fix mock imports and remove tests related to pypi's mock module
* Add py27 and 34 support docs to the sidebar
* Remove usage of six from tmpdir
* Remove six.PY* code blocks
* Remove sys.version_info related code
* Cleanup compat
* Remove obsolete safe_str
* Remove obsolete __unicode__ methods
* Remove compat.PY35 and compat.PY36: not really needed anymore
* Remove unused UNICODE_TYPES
* Remove Jython specific code
* Remove some Python 2 references from docs
Related to #5275
Without the patch the test fails as follows:
# Prepending should call fixup_namespace_packages.
monkeypatch.syspath_prepend("world")
> import ns_pkg.world
E ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ns_pkg.world'