Decorator to mark tests as work in progress for Python's Nose testing framework

wip.py

from functools import wraps
from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest


def fail(message):
    raise AssertionError(message)

def wip(f):
    @wraps(f)
    def run_test(*args, **kwargs):
        try:
            f(*args, **kwargs)
        except Exception as e:
            raise SkipTest("WIP test failed: " + str(e))
        fail("test passed but marked as work in progress")
    
    return attr('wip')(run_test)

Thanks for this :)

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