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

[Robert Collins]

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

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

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)]

See also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-July/330723.html

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

http://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/issues/detail?id=72 filed

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

http://bugs.python.org/issue16288 filed

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

It's not clear to me how this is a bug in testtools, since we don't actually have a TextTestRunner class.