NuPIC 0.7.0 test failures

8 of the unit tests failed for my nupic py.test COMMAND: python $NUPIC/scripts/run_nipic_test.py -u

tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testFiveStepConfidencesOpfVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testFiveStepPredictionsOpfVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testNumberOfOneStepPredictions PASSED
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepConfidencesAlgoVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepConfidencesOpfVsAlgo <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepConfidencesOpfVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepPredictionsAlgoVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepPredictionsOpfVsAlgo <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail
tests/unit/nupic/docs/examples_test.py::ExamplesTest::testOneStepPredictionsOpfVsNetwork <- …/…/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unittest2-0.5.1-py2.7.egg/unittest2/case.py xfail

========================================================================================== pytest-warning summary ==========================================================================================
WC1 /home/deric/Nupic/nupic/tests/unit/nupic/engine/network_test.py cannot collect test class ‘TestNode’ because it has a init constructor
WC1 /home/deric/Nupic/nupic/tests/unit/nupic/frameworks/opf/htmpredictionmodel_classifier_helper_test.py cannot collect test class ‘TestOptionParser’ because it has a init constructor
WC1 /home/deric/Nupic/nupic/tests/unit/nupic/regions/knn_anomaly_classifier_region_test.py cannot collect test class ‘TestOptionParser’ because it has a init constructor
WC1 /home/deric/Nupic/nupic/tests/unit/nupic/support/decorators_test.py cannot collect test class ‘TestParentException’ because it has a init constructor
WC1 /home/deric/Nupic/nupic/tests/unit/nupic/support/decorators_test.py cannot collect test class ‘TestChildException’ because it has a init constructor
================================================================== 703 passed, 17 skipped, 8 xfailed, 5 pytest-warnings in 136.27 seconds ==================================================================

could this cause problems ?

See How to use skip and xfail to deal with tests that cannot succeed — pytest documentation for more info about pytest’s skip and xfail semantics.