[TIP] getting the result of a test in teardown_method?

[Mark Roddy]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:44 AM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
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It's hacky, but you could accomplish this w/unittest by sub-classing
TestResult (or more likely _TextTestResult), overriding the
startTest(test) method and setting an attribute on the test instance
passed to the test result instance.  Then in your tearDown() you can
grab the test result object and find the result of the test run
(though this will take some mucking w/the internal structures of
TestResult which are not geared for accessing results for a specific
test.  Due to this you should probably add some convenience methods to
the TestResult class to make it easier).

You'll also need to inject your new subclass to make sure your
TestResult gets used instead of the underlying one.  Look at
TestCase.defaultTestResult() and TextTestRunner._makeResult(),

I'm not advocating this approach, but it will get the job done.

-Mark