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TextTestRunner uses str(test) which cannot be tweaked easily as it is a descriptor

Reported by Robert Collins on 2012-02-22

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This makes folk question whether testscenarios works (which depends on clone_test_with_new_id) when using the stock TextTestRunner.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2012-02-22:

Note too that because __str__ is privileged, http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#invoking-descriptors will be relevant to fixing this issue. Unless we can get voidspace to revert his change and use a named method.

Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2012-02-22:

Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2012-02-22:

Robert Collins (lifeless) on 2012-10-19

summary:	- unittest2 uses str(test) not test.id() + TextTestRunner uses str(test) which cannot be tweaked easily as it is a + descriptor
description:	updated