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Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 06:51:45 +1000
Subject: Re: skipping one unittest assertion?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 Can't you just comment out that line?
>
> Sure, but the point of @skip and @expectFailure is that they leave a
> visible trail in the test output that you need to go back and fix
> something.

Comment it out and add a line of output manually?

Make everything as simple as possible (but no simpler).

Chris Angelico