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authorPierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>2020-10-24 16:03:57 +0200
committerPierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>2020-10-30 18:22:32 +0100
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Make the update option work again and document it
It seems to have been possible at some point to update the expected output of functional tests with an option. It wasn't working anymore and was not documented.
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@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ current environment in order to have faster feedback. Run from Pylint root direc
python tests/test_functional.py
+You can use all the options you would use for pytest, for example `-k "test_functional[len_checks]"`.
+This also permit to automatically update the expected output instead of checking it with the
+`-u` option like this::
+
+ python tests/test_functional.py -u -k "test_functional[len_checks]"
+
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