Disabling Python nosetests

Question

When using nosetests for Python it is possible to disable a unit test by setting the test function\'s __test__ attribute to false. I have implemented this usin

Answer 1

Nose already has a builtin decorator for this:

from nose.tools import nottest

@nottest
def test_my_sample_test()
    #code here ...

Also check out the other goodies that nose provides: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testing_tools.html