Michael Foord writes:
> There is a newline between the testname and the first line of the
> docstring. If there is no docstring behaviour is completely unchanged.
[…]
> shortDescription itself is now unchanged from Python 2.6.
Thanks, that completely addresses and satisfies my concerns about th
On 11/02/2010 22:03, Ben Finney wrote:
Michael Foord writes:
It is done. The slight disadvantage is that overriding
shortDescription on your own TestCase no longer removes the test name
from being added to the short description.
That's a significant disadvantage; it can easily doubl
Michael Foord writes:
> It is done. The slight disadvantage is that overriding
> shortDescription on your own TestCase no longer removes the test name
> from being added to the short description.
That's a significant disadvantage; it can easily double the length of
the reported description for a
On 11/02/2010 12:13, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
Given that the change broke something, and the desired effect can be
gained with a different change, I don't really see a downside to the
change I'm proposing (reverting shortDescription and moving the code
that adds the test name
Michael Foord wrote:
> Given that the change broke something, and the desired effect can be
> gained with a different change, I don't really see a downside to the
> change I'm proposing (reverting shortDescription and moving the code
> that adds the test name to TestResult).
+1 on fixing this in a
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Michael Foord
wrote:
> On 10/02/2010 01:07, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Michael Foord writes:
>>> On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote:
I understood the point of ‘TestCase.shortDescription’, and indeed
the point of that particular name, was to be clear th
On 10/02/2010 01:07, Ben Finney wrote:
Michael Foord writes:
On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote:
I understood the point of ‘TestCase.shortDescription’, and indeed
the point of that particular name, was to be clear that some *other*
text could be the short description for the test
Michael Foord writes:
> On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I understood the point of ‘TestCase.shortDescription’, and indeed
> > the point of that particular name, was to be clear that some *other*
> > text could be the short description for the test case. Indeed, this
> > is what you've
On 09/02/2010 21:50, Ben Finney wrote:
Michael Foord writes:
It seems to me that the same effect (always reporting test name) can
be achieved in _TextTestResult.getDescription(). I propose to revert
the change to TestCase.shortDescription() (which has both a horrible
name and a horrible im
On 09/02/2010 22:22, Olemis Lang wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Michael Foord writes:
It seems to me that the same effect (always reporting test name) can
be achieved in _TextTestResult.getDescription(). I propose to revert
the change to TestCase.shortDesc
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Michael Foord writes:
>
>> It seems to me that the same effect (always reporting test name) can
>> be achieved in _TextTestResult.getDescription(). I propose to revert
>> the change to TestCase.shortDescription() (which has both a horrible
>> na
Michael Foord writes:
> It seems to me that the same effect (always reporting test name) can
> be achieved in _TextTestResult.getDescription(). I propose to revert
> the change to TestCase.shortDescription() (which has both a horrible
> name and a horrible implementation and should probably be re
I missed another minor issue. In the interests of completeness...
You currently have to subclass TextTestRunner (and override _makeResult)
for it to use a custom TestResult. Implementing a custom test result is
one of extensibility points of unittest, so I propose adding an optional
argument t
Hello all,
I've been looking at outstanding unittest issues as part of my
preparation for my PyCon talk. There are a couple of changes (minor) I'd
like to make that I thought I ought to run past Python-Dev first. If I
don't get any responses then I'll just do it, so you have been warned. :-)
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