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The unittest -b command line option hides the output of pdb. #133691

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import unittest

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test(self):
        print("hello")
        breakpoint()
        print("goodbye")

If I invoke this like:

$ python3 -m unittest -b repo.py

Nothing is printed and the process sits waiting on input.

Whereas without the -b option we get the Pdb prompt:

$ python3 -m unittest repo.py 
hello
> /home/matthew/code/coveragepy_issue_1963/repo.py(7)test()
-> print("goodbye")
(Pdb) 

I would expect that the debugger prompt would not be swallowed up by the "-b" option, or that some error message would pop up saying that the "-b" option and the debugger were incompatible.

CPython versions tested on:

3.12

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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