Provide ways to skip tests
pauleveritt opened this issue · comments
I spoke with Chris about this elsewhere, discovered another need.
Sometimes you have chunks of samples in docs that you don't want executed. They're un-runnable pseudocode. It would be nice to have a way to say "don't test these". Chris suggested a couple of variations of Sphinx directives.
Other times you want to skip when tox tests under certain interpreters. For example I have a snippet with a dataclass, in a package with optional dataclass support. I want the equivalent of:
@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3, 6), reason="requires python3.6 or higher")
Although it would be unique to pytest, it would be cool to have a Sphinx directive for skipif with the directive arguments matching the signature of skipif.
Work in progress is here, lemme know your thoughts.
Branch landed.