pytest-wholenodeid addon: v0.2 released!

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

What is it?

pytest-wholenodeid is a pytest addon that shows the whole node id on failure rather than just the domain part. This makes it a lot easier to copy and paste the entire node id and re-run the test.

v0.2 released!

I wrote it in an hour today to make it easier to deal with test failures. Then I figured I'd turn it into a real project so friends could use it. Now you can use it, too!

I originally released v0.1 (the first release) and then noticed on PyPI that the description was a mess, so I fixed that and released v0.2.

To install:

pip install pytest-wholenodeid

It runs automatically. If you want to disable it temporarily, pass the --nowholeid argument to pytest.

More details on exactly what it does on the PyPI page.

If you use it and find issues, write up an issue in the issue tracker.

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