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Some tests in the test suite are not implemented for one reason or another, and most of these are defined simply as "def test_thats_not_implemented(self): pass", possibly with a comment meant to be a reminder to implement it. This patch adds a decorator to test.support which turns the non-test into an expected failure with a docstring. This means that when run in verbose mode, instead of showing:
"""
test_thats_not_implemented (test.test_sometest.TestClass) ... ok
"""
it will instead show:
"""
Not Implemented: TestClass.test_thats_not_implemented ... expected failure
"""
This should make it more obvious that such a test needs some work. The patch also applies the decorator in test_minidom as an example; there are a few other places that could use it as well.