[TIP] nose's annoying output capture

[Chris Withers]

On 16/10/2011 09:55, Robert Collins wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, not mention that code that writes to stdout or stderr often fails 
in production (things like mod_wsgi, etc, don't like you writing 
directly to streams).

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

http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/streams.html

cheers,

Chris

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