Skip unittest test without decorator syntax

Question

I have a suite of tests that I have loaded using TestLoader\'s (from the unittest module) loadTestsFromModule() method, i.e.,

suite = loader.loadTestsFromModule         


        

Answer 1

This is a bit of a hack, but because you only need to raise unittest.SkipTest you can walk through your suite and modify each test to raise it for you instead of running the actual test code:

import unittest
from unittest import SkipTest

class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_this_should_skip(self):
        pass

    def test_this_should_get_skipped_too(self):
        pass

def _skip_test(reason):
    raise SkipTest(reason)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(MyTestCase)
    for test in suite:
        skipped_test_method = lambda: _skip_test("reason")
        setattr(test, test._testMethodName, skipped_test_method)
    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)

When I run this, this is the output I get:

test_this_should_get_skipped_too (__main__.MyTestCase) ... skipped 'reason'
test_this_should_skip (__main__.MyTestCase) ... skipped 'reason'

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Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

OK (skipped=2)