New submission from Julian Berman: Can `__unittest = True`, which is used to hide stack frames from tracebacks inside the testing framework, be documented as being public, or, if that's not acceptable, be replaced by something that is? `_exc_info_to_string` is a hairy function to need to rewrite when authoring a testing framework, but it's a rather common thing to want, and would be nice if it was easily done by integrating with what `TestCase` is already doing.
It's also (with or without formal blessing) being used in the wild in at least one place I know of here http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~testtools-committers/testtools/trunk/view/head:/testtools/testcase.py#L798 and since it's not terribly critical and will fail rather nicely even if the API changes suddenly I'd bet other places are using it too, though I haven't bothered to check. See also http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4127 which would be easier to implement if this were acceptable to use for external code. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 170126 nosy: Julian, michael.foord priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: A public facing API for __unittest = True type: enhancement versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15891> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
