[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord  added the comment:

The problem this fix was trying to fix was that if you provide a docstring for 
your test then the test name is ommitted in the report.

This could be fixed in the _TextTestResult instead - changing the 
getDescription() method to always include str(test).

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Jean-Paul Calderone  added the comment:

I agree that changing the result object is a better way to implement this 
feature: if the results object wants to report things by *name*, not 
*description*, then it should get the test's *name*, not rely on changing the 
meaning of the test's description method.

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Michael Foord]

Changes by Michael Foord :


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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord  added the comment:

Fixed revision 78130.

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

New submission from Jean-Paul Calderone :

Sometime between Python 2.6 and 2.7a1, the
unittest.TestCase.shortDescription method changed from returning just
the test method name to the test method name, in parentheses, the fully
qualified Python name of the test case.

This breaks several Twisted unit tests and, I think, goes against the
expectations users have of the "shortDescription" method.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 96948
nosy: exarkun
severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[R. David Murray]

Changes by R. David Murray :


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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord  added the comment:

Personally I agree. I'll see if I can find the change (don't think it
was me) and see if there was some kind of rationale.

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Brian Curtin]

Brian Curtin  added the comment:

It looks like this was changed in r70837

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Brett Cannon]

Changes by Brett Cannon :


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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Brian Curtin]

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[issue7588] unittest.TestCase.shortDescription isn't short anymore

[Ezio Melotti]

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