Feature Request: option to print __name__ of test instead of __doc__

[jpellerin]

Currently if a test function does not have a docstring it's name is printed
at verbosity=2. However, if the function does have a docstring then that
is printed instead of the name and there is no way to change this behavior.
I propose an option to choose between name and doc. (--func-name
perhaps).

I think this code from case.py governs the "name" of a test:
{{{
class TestBase(unittest.TestCase):

def shortDescription(self):
if hasattr(self.test, 'description'):
return self.test.description
func, arg = self._descriptors()
doc = getattr(func, 'doc', None)
if not doc:
doc = str(self)
return doc.strip().split("\n")[0].strip()
}}}

Google Code Info:
Issue #: 214
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2008-10-31T15:09:41.000Z
Closed On:

[jpellerin]

Yes please! nosetests prints either the name of the test function or the first
sentence of the docstring. This means that, when running nosetests with -v, the
output looks very inconsistent if some test cases has docstrings.

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2009-12-04T15:28:06.000Z

[jpellerin]

This is much more complicated than I originally thought since this is how the
underlying unittest.py library does it.

For reference in 2.6 one can replace the implementation of
_TextTestResult.getDescription with an unconditional return str(test). But that of
course eliminates all choice and is not a suitable upstream change.

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2010-01-25T20:22:36.000Z

[jpellerin]

This simple plugin appears to fix it perfectly:
https://bitbucket.org/natw/nose-description-fixer-plugin/

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2011-09-10T16:17:33.000Z