[issue18702] Report skipped tests as skipped

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

You changed "NNTP_CLASS = nntplib.NNTP_SSL", which could potentially fail, to "NNTP_CLASS = getattr(nntplib, 'NNTP_SSL', None)", which cannot fail.  Since that was the only thing that previously could fail, the change leaves nothing that can fail, so the test is not a test.

I suggested that you either not add the third param, a default, or that you remove the null test completely. If particular, if the only chunk of code in nntplib that is currently being tested is being executed by some other test, then do the latter.

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