how to skip a unittest case in python 2.6

Question

unittest.skip* decorators and methods as below (see here for more details) were added since python2.7 and i found they are quite useful.

unittest.skip(reason)
unittest.skipIf(condition, reason)
unittest.skipUnless(condition, reason)

However, my question is how we should do the similar if working with python2.6?

Answer 1

If you can't use unittest2 and don't mind having a different number of tests in Python 2.6, you can write simple decorators that make the tests disappear:

try:
    from unittest import skip, skipUnless
except ImportError:
    def skip(f):
        return lambda self: None

    def skipUnless(condition, reason):
        if condition:
            return lambda x: x
        else:
            return lambda x: None