Marking a subtest as an expected failure
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jun 21 15:03:21 EDT 2016
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
> def test_spam(self):
> for i in range(100):
> for j in range(100):
> with self.subtest(i=i, j=j):
> if (i, j) != (97, 83):
> self.assertEqual(spam(i, j), 999)
>
>
> but is there a nicer way to mark a specific subtest as an expected
> failure?
Expected failures and subtests are apparently not easily mixed using the
current API.
Digging into the ‘unittest.case’ module, the ‘expectedFailure’ decorator
does its job by setting the test case's ‘__unittest_expecting_failure__’
attribute to ‘True’.
Perhaps you can get the subtest object from the context manager, and
decide to set that magic attribute::
# …
with self.subtest(i=i, j=j) as subtest:
if (i, j) == (97, 83):
# The inhabitants of (97, 83) have always been trouble.
subtest.__unittest_expecting_failure__ = True
self.assertEqual(spam(i, j), 999)
That attribute is undocumented though, so I don't know whether to
consider that a nasty hack or a clever one. (Nor do I know whether it
works as I expect.)
You would be justified to report a bug that this interaction of useful
features should really be easier to access.
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