From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 22:23:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-10548: expectedFailure does not apply to fixtures (GH-23201) (#26045) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.6~115 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9049cf0aa9917abfd51b27e4258c395c5f66ff4;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-10548: expectedFailure does not apply to fixtures (GH-23201) (#26045) (cherry picked from commit 23ae2c3bacc167f7bbfea1846bbbc9dde63a1bfd) Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel --- diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index 9541997e3ccc..392cd2473155 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -597,8 +597,9 @@ The following decorators and exception implement test skipping and expected fail .. decorator:: expectedFailure Mark the test as an expected failure or error. If the test fails or errors - it will be considered a success. If the test passes, it will be considered - a failure. + in the test function itself (rather than in one of the :dfn:`test fixture` + methods) then it will be considered a success. If the test passes, it will + be considered a failure. .. exception:: SkipTest(reason)