Getting Python's unittest results in a tearDown() method

Question

Is it possible to get the results of a test (i.e. whether all assertions have passed) in a tearDown() method? I\'m running Selenium scripts, and I\'d like to do some reporti

Answer 1

If you are using Python2 you can use the method _resultForDoCleanups. This method return a TextTestResult object:

You can use this object to check the result of your tests:

def tearDown(self):
    if self._resultForDoCleanups.failures:
        ...
    elif self._resultForDoCleanups.errors:
        ...
    else:
        #Success

If you are using Python3 you can use _outcomeForDoCleanups:

def tearDown(self):
    if not self._outcomeForDoCleanups.success:
        ...