How to specify xml output for nose programatically

Question

I am running tests from a script with Nose. I want to be able to specify the xunit xml output file. The documentation says I can do it with the --xunit-file=FILE option.

I have

noseargs = ['--with-xunit', '--xunit-file=output.xml', '--tests=mytest']
nose.run(argv=noseargs)

After running this, the output.xml file isn't there. I've found if I swap the two arguments so it looks like:

noseargs = ['--xunit-file=output.xml', '--with-xunit', '--tests=mytest']
nose.run(argv=noseargs)

it will create a nosetests.xml file in my working directory. So it looks like the --with-xunit argument needs to be processed first, then the file needs to be specified. Is there something particular about how the file should be specified that I'm missing?

munk · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-27 21:48:59Z

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Nose eats the first argument of argv because on the commandline it's the name of the program.

This works with:

noseargs = ['foo', '--with-xunit', '--xunit-file=output.xml', '--tests=mytest']
nose.run(argv=noseargs)

answered Feb 27, 2013 at 21:48

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