unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromNames should accept module / class name

[voidspace]

BPO	5989
Nosy	@voidspace

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assignee = 'https://github.com/voidspace'
closed_at = <Date 2009-05-10.23:08:15.042>
created_at = <Date 2009-05-10.20:04:19.097>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromNames should accept module / class name'
updated_at = <Date 2009-05-10.23:08:15.040>
user = 'https://github.com/voidspace'

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activity = <Date 2009-05-10.23:08:15.040>
actor = 'michael.foord'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'works for me'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue5989'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2']

[voidspace]

It would be really nice if unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromNames
accepted module and class names.

My main motivation for that is so that I can do:

python -m unittest module_name

There is no backwards compatibility issue as currently this doesn't work...

Really easy to add.

[voidspace]

Actually they do - it is an obscure bug in the way the module is
specified in TestProgram that prevents this from working.

The code in parseArgs that is currently:

            if len(args) > 0:
                self.testNames = args

Should probably be:

            if len(args) > 0:
                self.testNames = args
                self.module = None

Anyway - I'll report and fix that as a separate issue. :-)