Issue 17282: document the defaultTest parameter to unittest.main() (original) (raw)

Issue17282

Created on 2013-02-24 00:14 by chris.jerdonek, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg182839 - (view)	Author: Chris Jerdonek (chris.jerdonek) *	Date: 2013-02-24 00:14
This issue is to document the defaultTest parameter to unittest.main(): http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html#unittest.main Note that it is not enough simply to say that *defaultTest* is a "default test name or iterable of test names." The documentation should also say when *defaultTest* is used based on the value of the *module* and *argv* arguments, etc. This issue is an offshoot of issue 15132.
msg188230 - (view)	Author: Kyle Roberts (kyle.roberts)	Date: 2013-05-01 15:00
I've uploaded a patch documenting defaultTest in the latest branch and also in the previous branches.
msg207180 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2014-01-02 18:44
New changeset 045e7a587f3c by R David Murray in branch '3.3': #17282: Document unittest.main defaultTest argument. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/045e7a587f3c New changeset 69b5f6924553 by R David Murray in branch '2.7': #17282: Document unittest.main defaultTest argument. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/69b5f6924553 New changeset 1bbf8c263d3c by R David Murray in branch 'default': Merge and update #17282: Document unittest.main defaultTest argument. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1bbf8c263d3c
msg207182 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2014-01-02 18:46
Thanks Kyle. I reworded it a bit to clarify the precedence of argv over defaultTest. (Also FYI your patch had stray spaces at the ends of the lines.)