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I've been a long time nosetests user, but it's become unmaintained, so I'd like to migrate something else. pytest seems to be an obvious choice, but I really dislike the way it formats test failures. Is there a way to make it use a more traditional format?

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Yes, you can alter the way tracebacks are printed (or not printed) for test failures:

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#modifying-pytho...

Thanks! --tb=native combined with --color=no makes it almost bearable.

It still annoys me that

  ==================================================================================== FAILURES =====================================================================================

takes the whole screen width. I can pipe stdout through "cat" to fix it, but it's not very convenient.

Try -q

Interesting. pytest's handling of `assert foo == bar` is one of my top two favorite things about it. My other favorite thing being fixtures.

This is probably not to your taste, but I _love_ it: https://pivotfinland.com/pytest-sugar/

Is nose buggy or is it missing features you need?

Nose is buggy. Lots of memory leaks, things that don't work in parallel, etc.

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