[SciPy-Dev] parametric tests, known failures and skipped tests

[Pauli Virtanen]

Blake Griffith <blake.a.griffith <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> Is there a way I can mark one item in a parametric test
> as a known fail or skiptest? Otherwise I'll have to fix
> all these bugs I'm finding, and implement support for the bool dtype too :)

It's a matter of raising the KnownFailureTest exception.
You can abuse the knownfailure decorator for that:

https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/scipy/special/tests/test_mpmath.py
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