[Python-Dev] unittest: shortDescription, _TextTestResult and other issues

[Michael Foord]

On 11/02/2010 12:13, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Michael Foord wrote:
>    
>> Given that the change broke something, and the desired effect can be
>> gained with a different change, I don't really see a downside to the
>> change I'm proposing (reverting shortDescription and moving the code
>> that adds the test name to TestResult).
>>      
> +1 on fixing this in a way that doesn't break third-party tests :)
>
>    

It is done. The slight disadvantage is that overriding shortDescription 
on your own TestCase no longer removes the test name from being added to 
the short description. On the other hand if you do override 
shortDescription you don't have to add the test name yourself, and using 
a custom TestResult (overriding getDescription) is much easier now that 
the TextTestRunner takes a resultclass argument in the constructor.

All the best,

Michael

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
>    


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