How to I display why some tests where skipped while using py.test?

Question

I am using skipIf() from unittest for skipping tests in certain conditions.

@unittest.skipIf(condition), "this is why I skipped them!")

How do I tell py.test to display skipping conditions?

I know that for unittest I need to enable the verbose mode (-v) but the same parameter added to py.test increase the verbosity by still does not display the skip reasons.

Answer 1

When you run py.test, you can pass -rsx to report skipped tests.

From py.test --help:

-r chars            show extra test summary info as specified by chars
                    (f)ailed, (E)error, (s)skipped, (x)failed, (X)passed.

Also see this part of the documentation about skipping: http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/skipping.html