gh-60492: Allow customizing test names in TextTestResult.

Doc/library/unittest.rst

@@ -2204,6 +2204,12 @@ Loading and running tests
    .. versionchanged:: 3.12
       Added the *durations* keyword parameter.
 
+   .. method:: getName(test)
+
+      Return a test name used in test results.
+
+      .. versionadded:: 3.14
+
 .. data:: defaultTestLoader
 
    Instance of the :class:`TestLoader` class intended to be shared.  If no

Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ symtable
 
   (Contributed by Bénédikt Tran in :gh:`120029`.)
 
+unittest
+--------
+
+* The new :meth:`.TextTestResult.getName` method allows customizing test names
+  in test results.
 
 Optimizations
 =============

Lib/test/test_unittest/test_result.py

@@ -467,6 +467,30 @@ def testGetDescriptionWithoutDocstring(self):
                 'testGetDescriptionWithoutDocstring (' + __name__ +
                 '.Test_TextTestResult.testGetDescriptionWithoutDocstring)')
 
+    def testCustomGetNameWithoutDocstring(self):
+        class CustomGetNameTextTestResult(unittest.TextTestResult):
+            def getName(self, test):
+                return test.id()
+
+        result = CustomGetNameTextTestResult(None, True, 1)
+        expected_test_name = __name__ + ".Test_TextTestResult.testCustomGetNameWithoutDocstring"
+        self.assertEqual(result.getName(self), expected_test_name)
+        self.assertEqual(result.getDescription(self), expected_test_name)
+
+    def testCustomGetNameWithDocstring(self):
+        """Test docstring."""
+        class CustomGetNameTextTestResult(unittest.TextTestResult):
+            def getName(self, test):
+                return test.id()
+
+        result = CustomGetNameTextTestResult(None, True, 1)
+        expected_test_name = __name__ + ".Test_TextTestResult.testCustomGetNameWithDocstring"
+        self.assertEqual(result.getName(self), expected_test_name)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            result.getDescription(self),
+            expected_test_name + "\nTest docstring.",
+        )
+
     def testGetSubTestDescriptionWithoutDocstring(self):
         with self.subTest(foo=1, bar=2):
             result = unittest.TextTestResult(None, True, 1)

Lib/unittest/runner.py

@@ -48,10 +48,14 @@ def __init__(self, stream, descriptions, verbosity, *, durations=None):
 
     def getDescription(self, test):
         doc_first_line = test.shortDescription()
+        test_name = self.getName(test)
         if self.descriptions and doc_first_line:
-            return '\n'.join((str(test), doc_first_line))
+            return f'{test_name}\n{doc_first_line}'
         else:
-            return str(test)
+            return test_name
+
+    def getName(self, test):
+        return str(test)
 
     def startTest(self, test):
         super(TextTestResult, self).startTest(test)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-03-27-13-05-28.gh-issue-60492.EfCUSI.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Add ``TextTestResult.getName()`` method to allow customizing test names.
+Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.