Disable individual Python unit tests temporarily

Question

How can individual unit tests be temporarily disabled when using the unittest module in Python?

Answer 1

The latest version (2.7 - unreleased) supports test skipping/disabling like so. You could just get this module and use it on your existing Python install. It will probably work.

Before this, I used to rename the tests I wanted skipped to xtest_testname from test_testname.

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Here's a quick elisp script to do this. My elisp is a little rusty so I apologise in advance for any problems it has. Untested.

  (defun disable_enable_test ()
  (interactive "")
  (save-excursion
    (beginning-of-line)
    (search-forward "def")
    (forward-char)
    (if (looking-at "disable_")
    (zap-to-char 1 ?_)
      (insert "disable_"))))