Hi Immanuel

Immanuel Scholz wrote:
 > --nomagic isn't a cute solution either, as you get no information at all
 > about the problem, and when people unaware of this run the test code
 > without the option, they still get false information.
 >
 > I was thinking of a more comfortable solution. Is it possible in python
 > to capture the assert call before it is made and cache the argument and
 > then call to the original "assert"? This way, you don't have to remember
 > to cache the call everytime yourself.

Various attempts were made in the history of py.test to solve this
particular problem, all not quite satisfactory. What we have now is a
kind of sensible trade-off between implementation effort and nice-ness.
Of course new ideas to try are welcome, but I don't thing it would be
easy to do.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich
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