Using @pytest.mark.skipif on a fixture silently fails.

[The-Compiler]

Since pytest.skip(...) can be used inside a fixture, I'd've expected that @pytest.mark.skipif does as well - turns out it seems to do nothing:

import pytest

@pytest.fixture
@pytest.mark.skipif(True, reason='test')
def fixt():
    pass

def test_one(fixt):
    pass

def test_two(fixt):
    pass

test_foo.py ..

============= 2 passed in 0.01 seconds ==============

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

marks on fixtures are not considered or taken into account

[nicoddemus]

Perhaps it should be made explicit in the documentation about marks?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

good point

[nchammas]

Is there any design reason we cannot expand skipif to apply to fixtures (and thus automatically apply to any downstream tests) as well? Is that what #1368 is about?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

its tricky, complicated, and impossible to implement correct on the current mark mechanism