integrating review commets of @nicoddemus

plus small scale refactoring

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/en/unittest.rst b/doc/en/unittest.rst
index 9e0b4973d..e4c09ee24 100644
--- a/doc/en/unittest.rst
+++ b/doc/en/unittest.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ distributing tests to multiple CPUs via the ``-nNUM`` option if you
 installed the ``pytest-xdist`` plugin.  Please refer to
 the general ``pytest`` documentation for many more examples.
 
+.. note::
+
+    Running tests from ``unittest.TestCase`` subclasses with ``--pdb`` will
+    disable tearDown and cleanup methods for the case that an Exception is
+    occurs. This allows proper post mortem debugging for all applications
+    which have significant logic in their tearDown machinery.
+
 Mixing pytest fixtures into unittest.TestCase style tests
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