Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>      http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288
> 
> my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need
> to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time.
> 
> the usual term for this is "expected failure" (sometimes called XFAIL).

Would "expect_fail", "expect_failure", "expected_fail", or 
"expected_failure",
work for you?

If so, could you rank them?  I don't get anything from "xfail", and I'm
not sure others will either.

--Scott David Daniels
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