[TIP] unittest2 expectedFailure

[Aaron Whitehouse]

Hello,

You may remember that I posted recently about using Tox to run our
unittests against both Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.

That now seems to be working, but I'm running into difficulty with the
@unittest.expectedFailure decorator. It appears to be working as
expected in Python 2.7, but not in Python 2.6 using unittest2.

My relevant code is:

import sys

if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
    import unittest2 as unittest
else:
    import unittest

@unittest.expectedFailure
def test_expected_failure(self):
    """Test behaviour of expectedFailure"""
    self.assertEqual(1, 2)


When I run this, it gives an expected failure on Python 2.7, but an
error on Python 2.6.
$ tox -- -s testing.unit.test_diffdir.DDTest.test_expected_failure
[...]
Test behaviour of expectedFailure ... FAIL

======================================================================
FAIL: Test behaviour of expectedFailure
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/home/aaron/Programming/duplicity_fix_tests/testing/unit/test_diffdir.py",
line 139, in test_expected_failure
    self.assertEqual(1, 2)
AssertionError: 1 != 2

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.124s

FAILED (failures=1)

[...]

Test behaviour of expectedFailure ... expected failure

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.126s

OK (expected failures=1)
___________________________________ summary
____________________________________
ERROR:   py26: commands failed
  py27: commands succeeded


I thought that the intention was that these two modules acted in the
same way. Have I done something incorrectly, or have I misunderstood
something?

Many thanks,

Aaron
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