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Consider using pytest.importorskip('dependency') in testing

See original GitHub issue

There is a helper function in pytest importorskip that might help clean up testing code. This would generally replace something like @skipif('not HAS_DEPENDENCY') with a line inside the test function / method dependency = pytest.importorskip('dependency').

I’m not completely sure this is an overall win, but we should think about this as a new standard idiom.

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cdeilcommented, Dec 7, 2016

I’ve written to the testing-in-python list about this, the thread starts here: http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2016-December/006962.html

I’ll post here again in a few days with a summary / recommendation on how to proceed.

Still, opinions welcome of course here in the meantime what you’d prefer to have for Astropy core!

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taldcroftcommented, Dec 2, 2016

“You can use the following import helper at module level or within a test or test setup function:”

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