@unittest.skip doesn't print anything in Python <= 3.7

[אורי]

Hi Terry,

Shai Berger found the bug and replied in Stack Overflow.

Thanks,
Uri.
אורי
uri at speedy.net


On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:36 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 2/11/2021 3:25 PM, אורי wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66161394/unittest-skip-doesnt-print-anything-in-python-3-7
> >
> > We are using Django with unittest. Some tests are skipped with the
> > @unittest.skip decorator. But if I run the tests with Python 3.6 or 3.7,
> I
> > get a number of tests passed (Ran 993 tests / OK), and if I run the same
> > tests with Python 3.8, I get the same number of tests but with some tests
> > skipped (Ran 993 tests / OK (skipped=4)).
>
> ...
>
> > I think the skipped tests are skipped in all Python versions, but in
> Python
> > 3.6 and 3.7 there is no output about them being skipped. Is it a bug?
>
> Perhaps you have discover a bug in 3.7 that was fixed in 3.8.  Each new
> version comes with a few hundred bug fixes, not just the new features,
> although only the latter are featured in the new version announcement.
>
> If you are really concerned, find What's New in 3.8 and look changelog,
> linked in the first paragraph, for 'unittest' issues.
>
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