- move away from explicit raises of SkipTest, instead call a

function patched onto config.  nose/pytest backends now fill
in their exception class here only when loaded
- use more public seeming api to get at py.test Skipped
exception

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/config.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/config.py
index d429c9f4e..a3d6e1690 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/config.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/config.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ file_config = None
 test_schema = None
 test_schema_2 = None
 _current = None
+_skip_test_exception = None
 
 
 class Config(object):
@@ -83,3 +84,9 @@ class Config(object):
         for cfg in cls.all_configs():
             yield cfg.db
 
+    def skip_test(self, msg):
+        skip_test(msg)
+
+
+def skip_test(msg):
+    raise _skip_test_exception(msg)