unittest: new reporting category "skipped"

[Jeremy Fincher]

Remy Blank <remy.blank_asps at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.3772.1095935910.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> Hello unittest users,
> 
> In a project I am working on, I have a series of tests that have
> to be run as root, and others as a normal user.

In my project, I have many tests that require a network connection,
and many others which don't.

> One solution is to separate the tests into two different files,
> and run the right one. I don't like this too much, as I prefer
> to group tests by "function".

I agree.

> class AnythingTest(unittest.TestCase):
> 	def testSomethingAsRoot(self):
> 		self.skipIf(os.geteuid() != 0, "Must be root")
> 
> 		self.assertEqual(...)
> 		...
> 
> 	def testSomethingAsNormalUser(self):
> 		self.skipIf(os.geteuid() == 0, "Must be normal user")
> 
> 		self.assertEqual(...)
> 		...

With all the argument that's happened on this list regarding
decorators and conditional expressions and whatnot, I had been
wondering whether anyone here came up with good ideas anymore.  But
you've certainly given a counterexample for that notion: your idea is
golden.

> If the echo is positive, I will make an initial implementation and
> provide a patch for feedback.

Even if it doesn't get accepted into Python proper, I'll take a copy
and put it with my project -- I already provide my own unittest.py
that I hacked to show the total number of asserts (I was curious one
day, and it's turned out to be a remarkably useful thing to have,
since my tests-upon-tests can hide unreaonable numbers of assertions
which otherwise would go unnoticed (except as a general slowness of
the test suite).

Jeremy