Question

Here is my code:

import unittest
import sys
import os

class DemoTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_one(self):
        print "test one"
        self.assertTrue(True)

    def test_two(self):
        print "test two"
        self.assertTrue(False)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dirpath = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    sys.stdout = open(dirpath+'/test_logs/demo_test.stdout.log', 'w')
    sys.stderr = open(dirpath+'/test_logs/demo_test.stderr.log', 'w')
    test_program = unittest.main(verbosity=0, exit=False)

When I run this, the contents of demo_test.stdout.log is only:

test one
test two

on the screen I still see the output from unittest:

======================================================================
FAIL: test_two (__main__.DemoTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "demotest.py", line 12, in test_two
    self.assertTrue(False)
AssertionError: False is not true

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

FAILED (failures=1)

I want there to be no output on the screen and everything to be logged. (I am running the test as a cron job, so any output to stdout or stderr causes an email to be sent, so I want to be able to specify exactly when this happens, which means I need to be able to control unittest in this regard.)

Answer 1

redirect stderr, e.g.:

python my_unit_test_launcher.py 2> log.txt