[TIP] 2.6.3 unittest change breaks nose

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 4, 2009, at 12:38 PM, jason pellerin wrote:

> 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
> immediately populated with the default TextTestRunner class. nose
> expects self.testRunner to be None or a runner instance in runTests(),
> and thus fails immediately with 2.6.3.

Please submit a bug report on this, if there isn't one already.  You  
can make it a release blocker for 2.6.4.

-Barry

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