Michael Foord added the comment:
Unfortunately subclassing core components is the *intended* mechanism for
customising unittest behaviour. Changing this is possible, but is a big job
with very extensive changes.
I don't think this request is *invalid* per-se, but it isn't something that
New submission from Alexander Belchenko:
Why by default unittest.main (which uses unittest.TextTestRunner) prints
everything to stderr. What the reason behind this behavior?
It makes very inconvenient to run big test suite with less, i.e.
python test.py | less
or
python test.py test.log
R. David Murray added the comment:
I think the reason is that this enables you to easily see if the tests generate
any output to stdout. This was important when unittest was introduced into
python, because some of our tests at that time were still written to check the
stdout output against
R. David Murray added the comment:
I'm pretty sure this should be closed as won't fix or invalid, but I'll
leave that to Michael, who is the current maintainer of unittest.
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nosy: +michael.foord
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