Support nose.plugins.skip.SkipTest at import time

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Originally reported by: Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub)

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It seems in nose you can raise nose.plugins.skip.SkipTest at import time of a test module. Nose will then just list this as a skipped test. When running this with py.test this will show up as an collection error instead (which is annoying since -x stops on it).

It would be nice if py.test would recognise this exception and also list the module as skipped.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/236

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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makes sense. If it can't easily be put into _pytest/nose.py i am also fine to do a bit of special casing in _pytest/python.org - there are also some nose bits there already.

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Original comment by Ronny Pfannschmidt (BitBucket: RonnyPfannschmidt, GitHub: RonnyPfannschmidt):

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the handling is in _pytest/runner.py

if the callinfo is turned into a parameter for the collectreport, we can make it a hook in the nose plugin

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Original comment by Floris Bruynooghe (BitBucket: flub, GitHub: flub):

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This was implemented in 8cf687dda7b0 by @antocuni

Thanks!

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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add nose.SkipTest for python2.6 -- which apparently is a subclass from python2.7 on.
addresses issue236