[TIP] plguins for unittest2?

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Sun Oct 16 01:55:40 PDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:08 AM, meme dough <memedough at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both py.test and nose (and presumably unit2) collect stdout / stderr
> and so hide it by default.  Why is this annoying?  You see the output
> if a test fails.

It interferes with debugging, both adhoc and pdb. Its unnecessary
complexity, and it -totally- fails in parallel test (via threads)
environments.

All in all its a terrible idea. Tests that need to capture
stdout/stderr can easily do so.

-Rob



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