[Python-Dev] skip all TestCase methods if resource is not available (original) (raw)

Florent Xicluna florent.xicluna at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 21:03:09 CEST 2010

2010/4/1 anatoly techtonik:

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Florent Xicluna wrote: (...)

Put it in unittest.TestCase.setUp() method. It should be enough. It fails with error instead if skip, as it should according to http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.setUp "...any exception raised by this method will be considered an error rather than a test failure..." -- anatoly t.

There's a special case for the "SkipTest" exception in 2.7 (even if it is not documented).

        try:
            self.setUp()
        except SkipTest as e:
            self._addSkip(result, str(e))
        except Exception:
            result.addError(self, sys.exc_info())

But for 2.6, you're right:

        try:
            self.setUp()
        except:
            result.addError(self, self._exc_info())

-- Florent

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