Michael Foord added the comment:
Actually they do - it is an obscure bug in the way the module is
specified in TestProgram that prevents this from working.
The code in parseArgs that is currently:
if len(args) > 0:
self.testNames = args
Should probably be:
New submission from Michael Foord :
It would be really nice if unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromNames
accepted module and class names.
My main motivation for that is so that I can do:
python -m unittest module_name
There is no backwards compatibility issue as currently this doesn't work...