Duncan Booth wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > >> Marking a unittest as "should fail" in the test suite seems just wrong >> to me, whatever the implementation details may be. If at all, I would >> apply a "I know these tests to fail, don't bother me with the messages >> for now" filter further down the chain, in the TestRunner maybe. >> Perhaps the code for platform-specific failures could be generalized? > > It isn't marking the test as "should fail" it is marking it as "should > pass, but currently doesn't" which is a very different thing.
You're right of course. I still think the "currently doesn't pass" marker doesn't belong into the test source. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list