[TIP] Skipping with stdlib unittest.py

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm curious about what other people do when they're using the stdlib unittest
> module and need to skip tests.  Fortunately, in Python 2.7, skipping features
> will be added, but what have people been doing up until now?
> 
> Jean-Paul
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Writing their own.

bzr, for example, hooks into the TestResult.addError to check to see if
this exception is actually a "TestSkipped" exception, and then changes
how the result is reported.

John
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