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On 05/18/2016 03:52 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Ned Batchelder wrote:

>> I'm not sure how
>> the test runner could determine that it was empty.  I guess it could
>> introspect the test function to see if it had any real code in it,
>
> Then people would just get clever at putting dummy code
> in the test that fools the test runner but doesn't really
> test anything...

Some would have, sure.

Either way, it's a solved issue now because we (finally ;) have the 
@skip decorator.

--
~Ethan~