From 914f689ee8e79c387ac6f7c0c529f70da79a028e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:33:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] beef up --assertmode help --- _pytest/assertion/__init__.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_pytest/assertion/__init__.py b/_pytest/assertion/__init__.py index a23e78ae4..5bac5b161 100644 --- a/_pytest/assertion/__init__.py +++ b/_pytest/assertion/__init__.py @@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser): group._addoption('--assertmode', action="store", dest="assertmode", choices=("on", "old", "off", "default"), default="default", metavar="on|old|off", - help="Control assertion debugging tools") + help="""control assertion debugging tools. +'off' performs no assertion debugging. +'old' reinterprets the expressions in asserts to glean information. +'new' rewrites the assert statements in test modules to provide sub-expression +results.""") group._addoption('--no-assert', action="store_true", default=False, dest="noassert", help="DEPRECATED equivalent to --assertmode=off") group._addoption('--nomagic', action="store_true", default=False,