Question

I am using Python Nose and would like to print the type of the test ran, like whether it is a Doctest or unittest or so? How can this be done?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create your own plugin to change the printed name of the test. Then, when you use the verbose flag the test type will print. Try something like this:

from nose.plugins import Plugin
import doctest

class CustomName(Plugin):
    def describeTest(self, test):
        if isinstance(test, doctest.DocTestCase):
            return "Doctest: %s" % test
        else:
            return "Unittest: %s" % test

After installing it, run it like:

nosetests --with-customname -sv test_directory

Be warned, this is untested.