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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-01-02 18:37:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-01-02 18:37:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 12e930f3a4fd84bde01c67976f108000e704d835 (patch) | |
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#17282: Document unittest.main defaultTest argument.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index 5157b26..fcfd514 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -1801,6 +1801,10 @@ Loading and running tests if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main(verbosity=2) + The *defaultTest* argument is the name of the test to run if no test names + are specified via *argv*. If not specified or ``None`` and no test names are + provided via *argv*, all tests found in *module* are run. + The *argv* argument can be a list of options passed to the program, with the first element being the program name. If not specified or ``None``, the values of :data:`sys.argv` are used. |