Question

I have a module mymodule that I test with unittest. The module logs to stdout diagnostics messages when is in verbose mode (e.g. mymodule.set_verbose(True)) and remains silent otherwise. I would like that when I import the module in the main program it is in the silent mode and when the unittest runs, it is verbose.

I tried to hack it in the unittest main loop, but it doesn’t work

if __name__ == "__main__":
  mymodule.set_verbose( True )
  unittest.main() 
# apparently, modules are loaded on each test separately

How to increase verbosity in python unittest? was not helpful.

Answer 1

You can call set_verbose from the setUp method of the unittest.