nose get list of test without running them

Question

Is there a way to get a list of all the tests currently recognized by nose, without running them?

According to the doc --collect-only Enable collect-only: Collect and output test names only, don't run any tests. [COLLECT_ONLY]

However when I do nosetests --collect-only I get:

Ran 101 tests in 0.642s

OK

How can I get names those tests?

Answer 1

Try with the -v option:

nosetests -v --collect-only

If you're trying to debug how nose actually finds your tests, go for -vv