nose2.main() verbose output

Question

I'm writing a separate nose2 tests.py for my program and because I want it to run on both Windows and Linux fairly seamlessly I've decided to forgo using the normal commandline nose2 and instead import it in the file and run it from there.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import nose2
    nose2.main()

This works fine, no problems. But I'd like the verbose output and I can't see how to get it to do this. I've tried:

nose2.main("-v")
nose2.main(kwargs="-v")
nose2.main(args="-v")

Anyone know how to get the imported version of nose2 to run in verbose mode?

Answer 1

Since the PluggableTestProgram class accepts the same parameters of unittest.TestProgram, you can pass verbosity to the main function as such:

nose2.main(verbosity=2)  # default is 1

See: Unittest.main documentation about verbosity