How to use verbosity level in your tests in Django

Question

Running a Django test case allows you to specify verbosity (0,1,2,3) like this

manage.py test -v 2 myapp.tests.test_mycode.TestMyCode.test_func 

How can I receive the verbosity flag inside my test_func

Answer 1

You can use inspect module:

from django.test import TestCase
import inspect

class MyTest(TestCase):

    def get_verbosity(self):
        for s in reversed(inspect.stack()):
            options = s[0].f_locals.get('options')
            if isinstance(options, dict):
                return int(options['verbosity'])
        return 1

    def test_func(self):
        verbosity = self.get_verbosity()
        self.assertEqual(verbosity, 2)