[TIP] unittest2 expectedFailure

[Florian Bruhin]

* Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.kiwi.nz> [2015-08-01 10:55:27 +0100]:
> 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.

Hmm... unittest2 at least seems to implement it:

https://hg.python.org/unittest2/file/d091f0086b03/unittest2/case.py

> 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)

Is that actually the code you're running? I don't see a class
inheriting from unittest.TestCase here, so unittest doesn't find and
tests here for me (as it requires tests to be in classes).

By the way: Have you ever considered switching to an alternative test
framework which works on older versions with all features
out-of-the-box? I can highly recommend py.test: http://www.pytest.org/

(In my opinion, it's also a lot more pleasant to use than unittest is)

Florian

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