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

Some observations:

• A test is a callable object with a __call__(result) method
• TestCase provides a higher-level interface, allowing test methods to throw a SkipTest exception to skip themselves
• The skip decorators do exactly this
• Skipped tests are recorded calling the TestResult.addSkip(test, reason) method.

So you just need to replace the to-be-skipped tests with a custom test that calls addSkip:

class Skipper(object):
    def __init__(self, test, reason):
        self.test = test
        self.reason = reason

    def __call__(self, result):
        result.addSkip(self.test, self.reason)