Opened 14 months ago

Last modified 14 months ago

#28452 new New feature

Consider adding a test command argument --locals to show traceback locals

Reported by: David Sanders Owned by: nobody
Component: Testing framework Version: master
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Someday/Maybe
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by David Sanders)

I'd like to suggest adding an argument to the test command, --locals, that simply passes tb_locals=True to unittest.TextTestRunner().

Currently it looks as though support for adding custom test runner kwargs was improved in 1.11 with ticket #26981 whereby one can provide a custom test runner and override get_test_runner_kwargs() however I think it would be nice to be able to examine locals without having to setup a custom test runner.

Please note that the tb_locals argument was introduced in Python 3.5, so this would need to be taken into consideration.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 14 months ago by David Sanders

Description: modified (diff)
Version: 1.11 → master

comment:2 Changed 14 months ago by David Sanders

Comment from jtiai on #django:

About #28452 Well it might generate quite lot of output and it potentially can output secrets that you don't want to leak out.

comment:3 Changed 14 months ago by Tim Graham

There might be some risk of heading down the path of reimplementing many features of ​pytest. How do we decide which of those features to add to Django?

comment:4 Changed 14 months ago by Tim Graham

Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Someday/Maybe

It would probably be best to reach a consensus on the DevelopersMailingList before proceeding.

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