bpo-34596: Fallback to a default reason when @unittest.skip is uncalled (#9082)

* bpo-34596: Fallback to a default reason when @unittest.skip is uncalled

* Change default reason to empty string

* Fix rst formatting of NEWS entry

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/unittest/test/test_skipping.py b/Lib/unittest/test/test_skipping.py
index 71f7b70e47..1c178a95f7 100644
--- a/Lib/unittest/test/test_skipping.py
+++ b/Lib/unittest/test/test_skipping.py
@@ -255,6 +255,17 @@ class Test_TestSkipping(unittest.TestCase):
         suite.run(result)
         self.assertEqual(result.skipped, [(test, "testing")])
 
+    def test_skip_without_reason(self):
+        class Foo(unittest.TestCase):
+            @unittest.skip
+            def test_1(self):
+                pass
+
+        result = unittest.TestResult()
+        test = Foo("test_1")
+        suite = unittest.TestSuite([test])
+        suite.run(result)
+        self.assertEqual(result.skipped, [(test, "")])
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()