On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 23:15 -0000, Simon wrote: > On 16/10/2009, at 04:31 , Maciej Fijalkowski fijall-at-gmail.com |py- > dev + execnet-dev| wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Simon <5kycsa...@sneakemail.com> > > wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I would like to capture the verbose output of test runs to a file > >> so that the debug is captured to a file regardless of whether the > >> test failed or when the test is not running to completion. > >> > >> Is there an easy way of doing this via a command line option, or > >> should I be perhaps modifying the resultlog plugin or something > >> similar? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Simon > > > > You know about py.test -s right? > > > > Cheers, > > fijal > > Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear. > > We generally run our tests with the -v option which is fine, which > produces a level of output suitable for our general day to day use. > > However we would also like to log the complete (-s) output to a file > in the background. So that if at some point in the future we need to > go through the detailed output, it is available. > > We'd also like this to happen in such a way that if the tests were to > hang or hard crash halfway through, we still have the debug log. > > Any ideas?
I am not completely sure how to best implement it. Maybe extend the "--capture" option to specify a filename. A naive implementation would only produce the test output though, not meta-information like test name or traceback. Maybe a bit tricky to get this working for dist-testing like "-n 3" but that's probably true for any impl idea for this feature. what do you think? Capturing is done via code in the _py/test/plugin/pytest_capture.py and in _py/io/capture.py (py-trunk references) - not completely trivial code because it works hard to play nicely with tests/apps using the std logging module which assumes ownership of sys.stdout/stderr stream. Do you feel like giving it a try? I plan for a 1.1 beta1 soon so it could be available soon. best, holger _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
