[New-bugs-announce] [issue6418] unittest.TestProgram change breaks nose

[Jason Pellerin]

New submission from Jason Pellerin <jpellerin at gmail.com>:

This changeset:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c3fb79d1c036

breaks nose, as it changes the behavior of unittest.TestProgram in a
non-backwards-compatible way. Previously, when called like:

TestProgram(testRunner=None)

self.testRunner would be None when runTests() was called. Now, it is 
populated with the default TextTestRunner class in TestProgram.__init__. 
nose expects self.testRunner to be None or a runner instance in 
runTests(), and thus fails immediately with 2.6.3.

If initialization of self.testRunner could be deferred to runTests() as 
in unitttest for 2.5 and earlier, that would be ideal for nose.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 90123
nosy: jpellerin
severity: normal
status: open
title: unittest.TestProgram change breaks nose
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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