Failing unittest Test cases

[Duncan Booth]

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.