Changing verbose report format for nosetests

nose, nosetests, python

Solution

You need to override the str method of your TestCase class in the following way:

def __str__(self):
    return __name__ + "." + self.__class__.__name__ + "." +  self._testMethodName

Modify the return string at your will.

Problem

I am running my tests using `nosetests` in verbose mode: ``` .... test_cache_region (tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator) ... ok test_expire (tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator) ... ok test_lru (tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator) ... ok test_max_capacity (tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator) ... ok test_DecimalJSONEncoder (tests.test_util.UtilTestCase) ... ok test_cdecimal_support (tests.test_util.UtilTestCase) ... ok test_ceil_with_ndigits (tests.test_util.UtilTestCase) ... ok test_switch_keyboard (tests.test_util.UtilTestCase) ... ok ... ``` Is there a way to easily change the report format to be like this: ``` ... tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator.test_lru ... ok tests.test_sysutil.TestCachedMethodDecorator.test_max_capacity ... ok tests.test_util.UtilTestCase.test_DecimalJSONEncoder ... ok tests.test_util.UtilTestCase.test_cdecimal_support ... ok ... ```

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