More concise test summary info

IPython/testing/iptestcontroller.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 b' import time'
 
 from .iptest import have, test_group_names, test_sections
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import bytes_to_str
-from IPython.utils.sysinfo import sys_info
+from IPython.utils.sysinfo import brief_sys_info
 from IPython.utils.tempdir import TemporaryDirectory
 
 
@@ -206,7 +206,7 b' def do_run(controller):'
 def report():
     """Return a string with a summary report of test-related variables."""
 
-    out = [ sys_info(), '\n']
+    out = [ brief_sys_info(), '\n']
 
     avail = []
     not_avail = []
@@ -327,17 +327,16 b' def run_iptestall(options):'
     print('_'*70)
     print('Test suite completed for system with the following information:')
     print(report())
-    print('Ran %s test groups in %.3fs' % (nrunners, t_tests))
-    print()
+    took = "Took %.3fs." % t_tests
     print('Status: ', end='')
     if not failed:
-        print('OK')
+        print('OK.', took)
     else:
         # If anything went wrong, point out what command to rerun manually to
         # see the actual errors and individual summary
         failed_sections = [c.section for c in failed]
         print('ERROR - {} out of {} test groups failed ({}).'.format(nfail,
-                                  nrunners, ', '.join(failed_sections)))
+                                  nrunners, ', '.join(failed_sections)), took)
         print()
         print('You may wish to rerun these, with:')
         print('  iptest', *failed_sections)

IPython/utils/sysinfo.py

@@ -117,6 +117,34 b' def sys_info():'
     path = p.dirname(p.abspath(p.join(__file__, '..')))
     return pprint.pformat(pkg_info(path))
 
+def _compress_user(path):
+    """Reverse of :func:`os.path.expanduser`
+    """
+    home = os.path.expanduser('~')
+    if path.startswith(home):
+        path =  "~" + path[len(home):]
+    return path
+
+def brief_sys_info():
+    """Return summary information about IPython and the system, as a string.
+    """
+    p = os.path
+    path = p.dirname(p.abspath(p.join(__file__, '..')))
+    inf = pkg_info(path)
+    out = []
+    def _add(name, value):
+        out.append((name, value))
+
+    _add('IPython version', inf['ipython_version'])
+    _add('IPython commit', "{} ({})".format(inf['commit_hash'], inf['commit_source']))
+    _add('IPython package', _compress_user(inf['ipython_path']))
+    _add('Python version', inf['sys_version'].replace('\n',''))
+    _add('sys.executable', _compress_user(inf['sys_executable']))
+    _add('Platform', inf['platform'])
+
+    width = max(len(n) for (n,v) in out)
+    return '\n'.join("{:<{width}}: {}".format(n, v, width=width) for (n,v) in out)
+
 
 def _num_cpus_unix():
     """Return the number of active CPUs on a Unix system."""