ignored test cases in unittest

[Terry]

On Aug 16, 5:25 pm, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Terry <terry.yin... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> It seemed the to me that python unittest module does not support the
> >> counting of ignored test cases directly. Is there any ready solution
> >> for this?
>
> > One solution I've seen involves:
>
> > * a custom exception class, ‘TestSkipped’
>
> > * raising that exception at the top of test cases you want to
> >   temporarily skip
>
> > * a custom ‘TestResult’ class that knows about a “skipped” result
>
> > * a custom reporter class that knows how you want to report that result
>
> I'd add to that a decorator so you can quickly mark a test case as ignored
> without editing the test itself. Also you could include a reason why it is
> ignored:
>
>  @ignore("This test takes too long to run")
>  def test_foo(self):
>     ...
>
> That also means you can redefine the decorator easily if you want to try
> running all the ignored tests.
>
> Another decorator useful here is one that asserts that the test will fail.
> If the test passes then maybe someone fixed whatever was making it fail and
> if so you want to consider re-enabling it.
>
>  @fails("Needs the frobnozz module to be updated")
>  def test_whotsit(self):
>     ...

Thanks for the solutions. I think the decorator idea is what I'm look
for:-)