[py-dev] Log to a file

[holger krekel]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 23:15 -0000, Simon wrote:
> On 16/10/2009, at 04:31 , Maciej Fijalkowski fijall-at-gmail.com |py- 
> dev + execnet-dev| wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Simon <5kycsae02 at sneakemail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I would like to capture the verbose output of test runs to a file  
> >> so that the debug is captured to a file regardless of whether the  
> >> test failed or when the test is not running to completion.
> >>
> >> Is there an easy way of doing this via a command line option, or  
> >> should I be perhaps modifying the resultlog plugin or something  
> >> similar?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Simon
> >
> > You know about py.test -s right?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > fijal
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear.
> 
> We generally run our tests with the -v option which is fine, which  
> produces a level of output suitable for our general day to day use.
> 
> However we would also like to log the complete (-s) output to a file  
> in the background. So that if at some point in the future we need to  
> go through the detailed output, it is available.
> 
> We'd also like this to happen in such a way that if the tests were to  
> hang or hard crash halfway through, we still have the debug log.
> 
> Any ideas?

I am not completely sure how to best implement it.  Maybe extend the 
"--capture" option to specify a filename.  A naive implementation would 
only produce the test output though, not meta-information like test name 
or traceback.  Maybe a bit tricky to get this working for dist-testing like 
"-n 3" but that's probably true for any impl idea for this feature. 

what do you think? 

Capturing is done via code in the _py/test/plugin/pytest_capture.py and
in _py/io/capture.py (py-trunk references) - not completely trivial code 
because it works hard to play nicely with tests/apps using the 
std logging module which assumes ownership of sys.stdout/stderr stream.  
Do you feel like giving it a try? 

I plan for a 1.1 beta1 soon so it could be available soon.

best,
holger