Extra Unittest Information

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 08:44:45 EDT 2006


Calvin Spealman wrote:
> This is something I have been wanting to find for a while, but i
> haven't figured out. I really would love to know if there is some way
> I can report extra information while running unittests, and have that
> information appear along with the tracebacks, so its near the relevent
> test's results.

Several test runners (py.test, testoob, nose) will trap stdout and stderr and 
only display them if that test fails. Then you can simply use print statements 
in your test methods.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco




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