[Python-checkins] bpo-46126: Disable 'descriptions' when running tests internally. (GH-30194)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a941e5927f7f2540946813606c61c6aea38db426
commit: a941e5927f7f2540946813606c61c6aea38db426
branch: main
author: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-01-22T10:49:38-08:00
summary:

bpo-46126: Disable 'descriptions' when running tests internally. (GH-30194)

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-12-18-22-23-50.bpo-46126.0LH3Yb.rst
M Lib/test/support/testresult.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/support/testresult.py b/Lib/test/support/testresult.py
index 2cd1366cd8a9e..eb2279a88f9a0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/testresult.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/testresult.py
@@ -145,7 +145,11 @@ def get_test_runner_class(verbosity, buffer=False):
         return functools.partial(unittest.TextTestRunner,
                                  resultclass=RegressionTestResult,
                                  buffer=buffer,
-                                 verbosity=verbosity)
+                                 verbosity=verbosity,
+                                 # disable descriptions so errors are
+                                 # readily traceable. bpo-46126
+                                 descriptions=False,
+                                 )
     return functools.partial(QuietRegressionTestRunner, buffer=buffer)
 
 def get_test_runner(stream, verbosity, capture_output=False):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-12-18-22-23-50.bpo-46126.0LH3Yb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-12-18-22-23-50.bpo-46126.0LH3Yb.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b7360b36454ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-12-18-22-23-50.bpo-46126.0LH3Yb.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Disable 'descriptions' when running tests internally.