On Aug 19, 12:41 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Margie Roginski wrote: > > I am using unittest in a fairly basic way, where I have a single file > > that simply defines a class that inherits from unittest.TestCase and > > then within that class I have a bunch of methods that start with > > "test". Within that file, at the bottom I have: > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > unittest.main() > > > This works fine and it runs all of the testxx() methods in my file. > > As it runs it prints if the tests passed or failed, but if they fail, > > it does not print the details of the assert that made them fail. It > > collects this info up and prints it all at the end. > > > Ok - my question: Is there any way to get unittest to print the > > details of the assert that made a test fail, as the tests are > > running? IE, after a test fails, I would like to see why, rather than > > waiting until all the tests are done. > > Not exactly what you're asking for, but 2.7 has grown a --failfast option > that tells unittest to stop on the first failure. For older Python versions > you can use nose > > nosetests -x myscript.py > > athttp://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.2/ > or the unittest backport athttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 > > Peter
Thanks for the pointers, I will give those a try. Margie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
