[issue39283] Add ability to inherit unittest arguement parser

2020-01-21 Thread Ajay Tripathi
Ajay Tripathi added the comment: Hi pual, > The issue of testing a script that uses argparse has come up on StackOverFlow > a number of times. Sorry for the confusing but this is not a support ticket, I am not stuck with a problem and I am aware of the variaous solutions on Stackoverflow to

[issue39283] Add ability to inherit unittest arguement parser

2020-01-17 Thread paul j3
paul j3 added the comment: The issue of testing a script that uses argparse has come up on StackOverFlow a number of times. As noted the unittesting framework(s) often use their own parsers (not necessarily argparse). That means they are looking at the sys.argv commandline. It is diffic

[issue39283] Add ability to inherit unittest arguement parser

2020-01-13 Thread Ajay Tripathi
Ajay Tripathi added the comment: Hi, Thanks for your response, here is a code sample of what I am doing right now: ``` import unittest import sys class MyTest(unittest.TestCase): def __init__(self, testName, extraArg): super(MyTest, self).__init__(testName) self.myExtraA

[issue39283] Add ability to inherit unittest arguement parser

2020-01-10 Thread Karthikeyan Singaravelan
Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Can you please post the unittest script and the desired behavior? Are you testing your own argument parser created using argparse or want to write something replacing the argument parser of the unittest module like creating a custom unittest runner

[issue39283] Add ability to inherit unittest arguement parser

2020-01-09 Thread Ajay Tripathi
New submission from Ajay Tripathi : I am currently writing a unittest script that requires argparser but since the unittest module already has a ArgumentParser instance, I cannot create and use my own ArgumentParser instance. Possible solution: The problem would be solved I could inherit th