[Twisted-Python] Getting nice logging outputs in py.test

[Amber Brown]

On 5/7/19 3:55 pm, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 04/07/2019 21:43, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>     How are you running the reactor in your pytest suites? I've not 
>> found a
>>     sane way to do this and so would recommend sticking with trial, 
>> crufty
>>     and old though it feels...
>>
>>
>> What feels crufty and old about trial?  And why is "old" a negative?
>
> "old" is negative here because things have moved on and trial hasn't.
>
> pytest feels like it's become the python standard now, so there's that.
> It's rich ecosystem of plugins is another one.
> The reliance on subclassing TestCase is nother.
> No fixtures.
> Poor support in pycharm for trial versus first class support for pytest.
>
> That's just off the top of my head, use pytest for a year or two and 
> coming back to trial may well feel the same.
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris

To note, Trial still is the only Python test runner which reliably finds 
all of Twisted's tests, though ;)

- Amber