NOSE2-3(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, this is the manual for nose2-3 — yes, that's literally the whole name, iconic minimalism fr fr 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so nose2-3 is your test runner and here's how you talk to it, no cap:

usage: nose2 [-s START_DIR] [-t TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORY] [--config [CONFIG]]
       [--no-user-config] [--no-plugins] [--plugin PLUGINS]
       [--exclude-plugin EXCLUDE_PLUGINS] [--verbosity VERBOSITY]
       [--verbose] [--quiet] [--log-level LOG_LEVEL] [-B] [--coverage
       PATH] [--coverage-report TYPE] [--coverage-config FILE] [-C] [-D]
       [-F] [--pretty-assert] [-h] [testNames ...]

🫶 positional arguments 🫶

• testNames — the names of the tests you wanna run, just tell them straight up 💖

👑 options 👑

• -s, --start-dir START_DIR — the directory where discovery kicks off (defaults to '.') 🌸
• -t, --top-level-directory, --project-directory TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORY — the top level directory of your project (and yeah, it defaults to the start dir) ✨
• --config, -c [CONFIG] — config files to load, if they exist. and if you don't say anything? the default is 'unittest.cfg' and 'nose2.cfg' in the start directory, periodt 💅
• --no-user-config — do NOT load user config files, we're on a strict vibe check 🚫
• --no-plugins — do not load any plugins at all. ⚠️ warning bestie: nose2 does not do anything if no plugins are loaded. like, literally nothing. it's giving empty plate at the function 💀
• --plugin PLUGINS — load this plugin module, yes queen 🧚
• --exclude-plugin EXCLUDE_PLUGINS — do not load this plugin module, we're curating 🙈
• --verbosity VERBOSITY — set the starting verbosity level (it's an int). this one applies before -v and -q do their thing 🔥
• --verbose, -v — print test case names and statuses. stack multiple '-v's for higher verbosity, go off ✨
• --quiet, -q — reduce verbosity. multiple '-q's result in lower verbosity, shy girl energy 🎀
• --log-level LOG_LEVEL — set the logging level for messages logged to console 📢
• -h, --help — show this help message and exit, the classic escape hatch 🦋

💜 plugin arguments 💜

command-line arguments added by plugins, the little extras the plugins bring to the group chat:

• -B, --output-buffer — enable output buffer 🫧
• --coverage PATH — measure coverage for a filesystem path (multi-allowed, so bring as many as you want) 🌈
• --coverage-report TYPE — generate selected reports. available types: term, term-missing, annotate, html, xml (also multi-allowed, go wild) 📊
• --coverage-config FILE — config file for coverage, default: .coveragerc ⭐
• -C, --with-coverage — turn on coverage reporting, we love to see it 👑
• -D, --debugger — enter pdb on test fail or error 🐛
• -F, --fail-fast — stop the test run after the first error or failure, no dragging it out bestie 💀
• --pretty-assert — add pretty output for "assert" statements, gorgeous 💖

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and that's the whole thing, slay 🎀 this was nose2-3 version 0.16.0-2, dated August 2026 — love her, read her, run her tests, byeee 🦋💅