TestCase.shortDescription returns inconsistent output during the execution of a test

[parautenbach]

I am using Python 2.7.7 as part of the Anaconda 2.0.1 distribution, together with nosetests and the teamcity-messages plugin to execute tests.

As noted in #30 of the teamcity-messages project, different values are returned by shortDescription when invoked in startTest and stopTest respectively via the getTestName helper in the teamcity-messages project, during the execution of a single test.

I've checked the Python project's source code and it seems unlikely to be the cause of this problem.

I'm running nosetests with verbosity set to 2.

[jszakmeister]

I believe this is probably a dupe of #777. Does my cache-short-description fix the issue for you?

[parautenbach]

Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't aware of that issue (I couldn't find it when searching). Yes, it seems like a duplicate. I will test your code locally. For now, I've made a change to the teamcity-messages project as a workaround. Have you created a pull request that can be integrated into a future release?

As I'm using this in an automated environment, I need to pull from PyPI, and rather avoid patching code manually.

[jszakmeister]

@parautenbach No, I have not yet. In the commit message you can see I was contemplating another approach to the issue, but I haven't had enough "roundtuits" to get to examining the alternate approach.

[jszakmeister]

@parautenbach One option, if you're using pip, might be to make use of pip's Git support--just to help test the fix.