Python Testing with pytest

Skipping Tests with pytest.mark.skip

The skip marker allows us to skip a test. Let’s say we’re thinking of adding the ability to sort in a future version of the Cards application, so we’d like to have the Card class support comparisons. We write a test for comparing Card objects with < like this:

ch6/builtins/test_less_than.py

from cards import Card


def test_less_than():
    c1 = Card("a task")
    c2 = Card("b task")
    assert c1 < c2


def test_equality():
    c1 = Card("a task")
    c2 = Card("a task")
    assert c1 == c2

And it fails:

$ cd /path/to/code/ch6/builtins
$ pytest --tb=short test_less_than.py
========================= test session starts ==========================
collected 2 items ...