On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > On 03/03/2011 20:31, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> >> I am looking at --help of test runner and asking the question: what is >> the use case for -c, --catch option? > > It catches keyboard interrupt and instead of just bombing out of the test > run it reports all the results collected so far. > > Without this option interrupting a test run with a ctrl-c kills the run and > reports nothing. Seeing an unexpected failure or error during a long test > run and having to wait to the end of the test run to see the traceback can > be annoying, this feature solves that problem.
Why not just leave this behavior by default and just return -1 if the Ctrl-C was pressed? >> It doesn't look like it should be >> present in generic runner. I also can't find reasons to waste short >> option for it. > > Nose, django and other test runners provide this option, so it is > functionality that people seem to value. > >> There will be big problems with people complaining >> about BC break even if this option is not used by anyone. >> > > I don't understand this sentence, sorry. If the option is useless, people won't allow to remove it, because it will break "backward compatibility" (BC), even if they don't use this option themselves. > All the best, > > Michael Foord >> >> Usage: tests.py [options] [test] [...] >> >> Options: >> -h, --help Show this message >> -v, --verbose Verbose output >> -q, --quiet Minimal output >> -f, --failfast Stop on first failure >> -c, --catch Catch control-C and display results >> -b, --buffer Buffer stdout and stderr during test runs >> >> >> -- >> anatoly t. >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > > > -- > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ > > May you do good and not evil > May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others > May you share freely, never taking more than you give. > -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
