[TIP] Skipping with stdlib unittest.py

Nicolas Chauvat nicolas.chauvat at logilab.fr
Mon Jul 27 13:34:33 PDT 2009


Hello,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:05:12PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> 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?

logilab.common.testlib can skip tests.

Here are examples from the tests of l.c.testlib:

http://hg.logilab.org/logilab/common/file/4529e85472a7/test/unittest_testlib.py

Search for "skip" in the above or in
http://hg.logilab.org/logilab/common/file/4529e85472a7/testlib.py

Hope this helps,

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Nicolas Chauvat

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