[Python-checkins] Clarify expectedFailure in the unittest docs. (#10953)

Gregory P. Smith webhook-mailer at python.org
Thu Dec 6 15:56:28 EST 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/91f259b478ae8bfb4c73e5b5a767e4bf0ee9257f
commit: 91f259b478ae8bfb4c73e5b5a767e4bf0ee9257f
branch: master
author: Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-12-06T12:56:24-08:00
summary:

Clarify expectedFailure in the unittest docs. (#10953)

files:
M Doc/library/unittest.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index 8afbee642620..acf9b49548b3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -585,8 +585,8 @@ The following decorators implement test skipping and expected failures:
 
 .. decorator:: expectedFailure
 
-   Mark the test as an expected failure.  If the test fails when run, the test
-   is not counted as a failure.
+   Mark the test as an expected failure.  If the test fails it will be
+   considered a success.  If the test passes, it will be considered a failure.
 
 .. exception:: SkipTest(reason)
 



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