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[Tim Simpson <tim.simpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Skip plugin for nose offers similar functionality which can be used in Python 2.6: 
http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/plugins/skip.html

Using this you can write decorators that raise SkipTest if a certain criteria isn't met.

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From: openstack-bounces+tim.simpson=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [openstack-bounces+tim.simpson=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Clay Gerrard [clay.gerrard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:09 PM
To: Dan Prince; Justin Santa Barbara
Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?

Unittest2 lets you define a test case that is expected to fail:
http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.expectedFailure

new in 2.7, but it could be possible to backport - or do something similar...

May have issues with nose:
http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/detail?id=325
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