Essentially the TestCase will name the fixture.  That's pretty easy to understand.  
The cool part is this: each test method is a two-part clause:  condition_"should"_result or "when"_condition_"then"_result.  
Or possibly "method_state_behavior".  
What a handy way to organize test cases.  Only took me four years to figure out how important this kind of thing is.
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Have you tried the spec plugin for nose? It gives you a really good understandable output for nosetests:
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