Enable unittest.TestCase to be instantiated without providing a method name.
Changed unittestgui to show number of discovered tests in the status bar.
diff --git a/Lib/unittest/case.py b/Lib/unittest/case.py
index 004a9f5..0277ac8 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/case.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/case.py
@@ -274,12 +274,17 @@
"""
self._testMethodName = methodName
self._outcomeForDoCleanups = None
+ self._testMethodDoc = 'No test'
try:
testMethod = getattr(self, methodName)
except AttributeError:
- raise ValueError("no such test method in %s: %s" %
- (self.__class__, methodName))
- self._testMethodDoc = testMethod.__doc__
+ if methodName != 'runTest':
+ # we allow instantiation with no explicit method name
+ # but not an *incorrect* or missing method name
+ raise ValueError("no such test method in %s: %s" %
+ (self.__class__, methodName))
+ else:
+ self._testMethodDoc = testMethod.__doc__
self._cleanups = []
# Map types to custom assertEqual functions that will compare