James Corbett <james.h.corb...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I was careless in my example, it would need to be `cls.skipTest(reason)`. However, that really doesn't have anything to do with why it should be a `classmethod` instead of an instance method: it's so that you can call `skipTest` from `classmethods`, namely `setUpClass` which is called by the `unittest` framework. You can currently call `skipTest` from `setUpClass` only with something ugly like `cls.skipTest(None, reason)` (i.e. passing `None` for the `self` parameter, which works because `self` isn't used). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41046> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
