For many of us, this isn't a nuisance. It is a desirable feature. test_xxx functions and methods typically don't have docstrings at all as the majority of tests tend to be concise and obvious with the function name itself describes what its purpose is. When we added printing the docstring, it was useful, as you can expand upon the purpose of the test more than you can in a reasonable name within the docstring. We do this all the many times in our own test suite. When running the tests, you see the docstring and are given more context as to what the test is about. This can be useful when triaging a failure before you've even loaded the source.
I don't doubt that someone writes thesis defenses and stores them in their TestCase.test_method docstrings. I'm just saying that is not the norm. I'd accept a PR adding another command line switch for unittest to disable docstring printing in verbose mode. -gps On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2022, at 17:48, Itay Yeshaya <itay.yesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > When running unittest with the -v flag, if a test has errors, and has a > docstring, the test name is shown on one line, and the docstring is shown > on the next line with the `ERROR` word. > > This has been a long-standing nuisance, but I’m like Guido. I pretty much > use pytest for everything these days, except for maybe unittest.mock.patch. > > -Barry > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/ZIMXSRQMWFOE4U3C3MBK6SG5TH26PDRL/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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