Skip unittest if some-condition in SetUpClass fails

Question

I was playing with pyUnit framework for unittest testing of my application. Is there any any way to skip all the tests in class if certain condition in setUpCla

Answer 1

Instead of explicitly raising the SkipTest exception, the documentation suggests using TestCase.skipTest(). For example:

def setUp(self):
    if skip_tests_flag:
        self.skipTest('skipped test due to skip_tests_flag')

Answer 2

Got the answer:

For those who gets stuck here-

unittest can be skipped from setUpClass in following way-

raise unittest.SkipTest(message)