On 03/03/2011 21:54, anatoly techtonik wrote:
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?
Because it means installing a signal handler which is not necessarily
appropriate for all test systems. We *could* make it the default in the
future (for the test runner only - not when unittest is used via the api).
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.
So you want it on by default but are also worried about the backwards
compatibility issues of it even existing as an option? Anyway, your
assertion that the option is or may be useless is unfounded. Don't worry
about it.
All the best,
Michael Foord
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.
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