Message 180807 - Python tracker
>> This is also not so uncommon. I think the skip on the accelerated >> version might not be necessary in some situations. > >Then don't use this approach. It doesn't have to apply to every single >test class in a module. It just needs to help in the simple case. What I was trying to say is that since the special cases are not so uncommon, we might not have many simple cases where this idiom could be used to save a few lines, and we will end up with two different idioms for the same thing.