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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-01-02 18:43:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-01-02 18:43:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 6e731b0a418784eba9065cddc2b0f665faff051c (patch) | |
| tree | 0150e3f9bfe3f34c93bb5f3cbcdb867e0da1d398 /Doc/library/unittest.rst | |
| parent | c22eaecd53a3d9dc7ca441e6d6f1e0148469f1e9 (diff) | |
| parent | 12e930f3a4fd84bde01c67976f108000e704d835 (diff) | |
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Merge and update #17282: Document unittest.main defaultTest argument.
In 3.4 defaultTest can also be a list (see issue 15132).
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index 46d303a..3f30127 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -1966,6 +1966,11 @@ Loading and running tests if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main(verbosity=2) + The *defaultTest* argument is either the name of a single test or an + iterable of test names 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. |