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Author techtonik
Recipients techtonik
Date 2010-06-18.12:20:13
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Need --help, --list options and TestSute.testcase args for test_support.run_unittest


User story:
I am covering CGIHTTPServer with tests according to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt speccy and want to run a single test in a cycle. I am running test cases like:

> python test_httpservers.py

I want to get all available tests in file and execute only the one I need, but test_support.run_unittest doesn't accept any params.

> python test_httpservers.py --help

just runs the test.


I propose to:

1. add list option
-l, --list    list the names of test to be executed and exit
example:
> python test_httpservers.py --list
BaseHTTPServer::command
BaseHTTPServer::handler

I omit `test_` prefix and `TestCase` suffixes as they don't bear any value and just clutter the console. This is my idealistic view.

2. add arguments of test names with wildcards
> python test_httpservers.py --list BaseHTTP*
BaseHTTPServer::command
BaseHTTPServer::handler
> python test_httpservers.py --list *auth*
BaseHTTPServer::handler
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