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author | Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> | 2010-04-04 23:28:44 (GMT) |
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committer | Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> | 2010-04-04 23:28:44 (GMT) |
commit | ddb20df018ac989635e02164893df661ef93fb5f (patch) | |
tree | 0b965692d2832d1c8680bff3c94735c1d5cf1dfe /Doc | |
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Adding documentation for new unittest.main() parameters
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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index ec091ab..2a19d81 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -1665,8 +1665,8 @@ Loading and running tests stream, descriptions, verbosity -.. function:: main([module[, defaultTest[, argv[, testRunner[, testLoader[, exit, [verbosity]]]]]]]) - +.. function:: main([module[, defaultTest[, argv[, testRunner[, testLoader[, exit[, verbosity[, failfast[, catchbreak[,buffer]]]]]]]]]]) +, A command-line program that runs a set of tests; this is primarily for making test modules conveniently executable. The simplest use for this function is to include the following line at the end of a test script:: @@ -1691,11 +1691,15 @@ Loading and running tests >>> from unittest import main >>> main(module='test_module', exit=False) + The ``failfast``, ``catchbreak`` and ``buffer`` parameters have the same + effect as the `failfast, catch and buffer command line options`_. + Calling ``main`` actually returns an instance of the ``TestProgram`` class. This stores the result of the tests run as the ``result`` attribute. .. versionchanged:: 2.7 - The ``exit`` and ``verbosity`` parameters were added. + The ``exit``, ``verbosity``, ``failfast``, ``catchbreak`` and ``buffer`` + parameters were added. load_tests Protocol |