On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:42:05 -0700, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:47 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: >> In py.test, is there a way to suppress stdout at all? >> >> In my program, if a test fails .. py.test prints a huge amount of text >> (that the program prints to stdout) .. and I had to scroll back a lot to >> see the traceback. This is very inconvenient. In most case, I just want >> to see the traceback along with locals values. > yes, makes sense - i had this need myself as well, actually. > I'd like to have this and other report customizations be > doable through a --report option (and thus also through ENV > vars and conftest.py settings). > For now, as a kind of workaround, you could put the following lines > into a conftest plugin: > # example content of conftest.py > import py > def pytest_runtest_call(__call__, item): > cap = py.io.StdCapture() > try: > return __call__.execute() # call all other hook > implementations > finally: > outerr = cap.reset() # forget about capture > if you run your tests now, all capturing should be dropped. > does it work for you and is the effect roughly what you want? Yes, this does the trick for me (although I would probably modify the code to log stdout to a file insead). Thanks. -srid _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
