Revert "Deprecate raising unittest.SkipTest to skip tests during coll…

…ection"

This reverts commit 25e657b.

Turns out that this *is* a working unittest feature, which pytest should
support, so undo the deprecation.

changelog/8242.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The deprecation of raising :class:`unittest.SkipTest` to skip collection of
+tests during the pytest collection phase is reverted - this is now a supported
+feature again.

doc/en/changelog.rst

@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ Deprecations
   :class:`unittest.SkipTest` / :meth:`unittest.TestCase.skipTest` /
   :func:`unittest.skip` in unittest test cases is fully supported.
 
+  NOTE: This deprecation has been reverted in pytest 7.1.0.
+
 
 - `#8315 <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/8315>`_: Several behaviors of :meth:`Parser.addoption <pytest.Parser.addoption>` are now
   scheduled for removal in pytest 8 (deprecated since pytest 2.4.0):

doc/en/deprecations.rst

@@ -241,19 +241,6 @@ scheduled for removal in pytest 8 (deprecated since pytest 2.4.0):
 - ``parser.addoption(..., type="int/string/float/complex")`` - use ``type=int`` etc. instead.
 
 
-Raising ``unittest.SkipTest`` during collection
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. deprecated:: 7.0
-
-Raising :class:`unittest.SkipTest` to skip collection of tests during the
-pytest collection phase is deprecated. Use :func:`pytest.skip` instead.
-
-Note: This deprecation only relates to using `unittest.SkipTest` during test
-collection. You are probably not doing that. Ordinary usage of
-:class:`unittest.SkipTest` / :meth:`unittest.TestCase.skipTest` /
-:func:`unittest.skip` in unittest test cases is fully supported.
-
 Using ``pytest.warns(None)``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

src/_pytest/deprecated.py

@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@
 # This deprecation is never really meant to be removed.
 PRIVATE = PytestDeprecationWarning("A private pytest class or function was used.")
 
-UNITTEST_SKIP_DURING_COLLECTION = PytestRemovedIn8Warning(
-    "Raising unittest.SkipTest to skip tests during collection is deprecated. "
-    "Use pytest.skip() instead."
-)
-
 ARGUMENT_PERCENT_DEFAULT = PytestRemovedIn8Warning(
     'pytest now uses argparse. "%default" should be changed to "%(default)s"',
 )

src/_pytest/runner.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import bdb
 import os
 import sys
-import warnings
 from typing import Callable
 from typing import cast
 from typing import Dict
@@ -28,7 +27,6 @@
 from _pytest.compat import final
 from _pytest.config.argparsing import Parser
 from _pytest.deprecated import check_ispytest
-from _pytest.deprecated import UNITTEST_SKIP_DURING_COLLECTION
 from _pytest.nodes import Collector
 from _pytest.nodes import Item
 from _pytest.nodes import Node
@@ -379,11 +377,6 @@ def pytest_make_collect_report(collector: Collector) -> CollectReport:
             # Type ignored because unittest is loaded dynamically.
             skip_exceptions.append(unittest.SkipTest)  # type: ignore
         if isinstance(call.excinfo.value, tuple(skip_exceptions)):
-            if unittest is not None and isinstance(
-                call.excinfo.value, unittest.SkipTest  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
-            ):
-                warnings.warn(UNITTEST_SKIP_DURING_COLLECTION, stacklevel=2)
-
             outcome = "skipped"
             r_ = collector._repr_failure_py(call.excinfo, "line")
             assert isinstance(r_, ExceptionChainRepr), repr(r_)

testing/deprecated_test.py

@@ -86,23 +86,6 @@ def __init__(self, foo: int, *, _ispytest: bool = False) -> None:
     PrivateInit(10, _ispytest=True)
 
 
-def test_raising_unittest_skiptest_during_collection_is_deprecated(
-    pytester: Pytester,
-) -> None:
-    pytester.makepyfile(
-        """
-        import unittest
-        raise unittest.SkipTest()
-        """
-    )
-    result = pytester.runpytest()
-    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
-        [
-            "*PytestRemovedIn8Warning: Raising unittest.SkipTest*",
-        ]
-    )
-
-
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("hooktype", ["hook", "ihook"])
 def test_hookproxy_warnings_for_pathlib(tmp_path, hooktype, request):
     path = legacy_path(tmp_path)

testing/test_nose.py

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ def test_failing():
         """
     )
     result = pytester.runpytest(p)
-    result.assert_outcomes(skipped=1, warnings=1)
+    result.assert_outcomes(skipped=1, warnings=0)
 
 
 def test_SkipTest_in_test(pytester: Pytester) -> None:

testing/test_unittest.py

@@ -1498,3 +1498,30 @@ def test_it(self):
     assert passed == 1
     assert failed == 1
     assert reprec.ret == 1
+
+
+def test_raising_unittest_skiptest_during_collection(
+    pytester: Pytester,
+) -> None:
+    pytester.makepyfile(
+        """
+        import unittest
+
+        class TestIt(unittest.TestCase):
+            def test_it(self): pass
+            def test_it2(self): pass
+
+        raise unittest.SkipTest()
+
+        class TestIt2(unittest.TestCase):
+            def test_it(self): pass
+            def test_it2(self): pass
+        """
+    )
+    reprec = pytester.inline_run()
+    passed, skipped, failed = reprec.countoutcomes()
+    assert passed == 0
+    # Unittest reports one fake test for a skipped module.
+    assert skipped == 1
+    assert failed == 0
+    assert reprec.ret == ExitCode.NO_TESTS_COLLECTED