I don't think this change of behaviour should be accepted without discussion, and I'm not sure why you think Python-Dev is the right place, rather than here. 

Messing around with unittest and docstrings has already caused issues in the past:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.shortDescription

so perhaps we shouldn't break what's not broken?


And frankly, I don't see why the current behaviour is a problem, although maybe that's because the way I use unittest is different from the way you use it. Grepping the output for errors? Why run verbose mode if you aren't going to read the whole output? Seems very odd.

Ethan says: "the test name is easily missed by anyone who isn't aware of that"

Surely the solution to that is education, not changing unittest? Now you are aware of it, and the test name is no longer "easily missed".

If it ever was. To me, it is plain as day. Here is some typical output:


[steve ~]$ python3.10 -m unittest -v mathlib/testing/test_utils.py
test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax)
This is a docstring ... ERROR
test_broken_nodoc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) ... ERROR
test_empty_iterable (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) ... ok
[additional passing tests ommitted for brevity]

======================================================================
ERROR: test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax)
This is a docstring
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/steve/Desktop/mathlib/testing/test_utils.py", line 20, in test_broken_doc
    self.assertEqual(1, x)
NameError: name 'x' is not defined

======================================================================
ERROR: test_broken_nodoc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/steve/Desktop/mathlib/testing/test_utils.py", line 24, in test_broken_nodoc
    self.assertEqual(1, x)
NameError: name 'x' is not defined

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 10 tests in 0.004s

FAILED (errors=2)


Errors are listed twice, once in the summary, and the second time in the details section showing the traceback. Note that if you just grep for ERROR you get the result you want:

[steve ~]$ python3.10 -m unittest -v mathlib/testing/test_utils.py |& grep ERROR
This is a docstring ... ERROR
test_broken_nodoc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax) ... ERROR
ERROR: test_broken_doc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax)
ERROR: test_broken_nodoc (mathlib.testing.test_utils.TestMinmax)


So I am having trouble seeing what the problem here is.