[New-bugs-announce] [issue47133] enhance unittest to show test name and docstring on one line

[Ethan Furman]

New submission from Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

When running unittest with the -v flag, if a test has errors, and has a docstring, the test name is shown on one line, and the docstring is shown on the next line -- and the ERROR word is shown with the docstring.

What this means is that:
- the test name is easily missed by anyone who isn't aware of that (I only recently found out when someone else pointed it out to me)
- grepping for ERROR doesn't reveal the test name, necessitating a search through the testing code to find the test that failed

There are two possible solutions, and the selection of which one should be discussed on python-dev:
- print the name and docstring, and ERROR, all on one line; or
- provide a command-line switch to select that behavior

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components: Tests
messages: 416090
nosy: ethan.furman
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: enhance unittest to show test name and docstring on one line
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.11

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