- cx_oracle test for "unicode returns" needs to be cx_oracle only,

and also will fail on py3k.
- enhance exclusions so that a requirement attribute can be passed
to fails_if/skip_if.
- fix coverage docs to mention pytest.

4 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README.unittests.rst b/README.unittests.rst
index 0ddffaa68..1ab4e9536 100644
--- a/README.unittests.rst
+++ b/README.unittests.rst
@@ -266,8 +266,9 @@ statement execution.
 
 BUILT-IN COVERAGE REPORTING
 ------------------------------
-Coverage is tracked using Nose's coverage plugin.   See the nose
-documentation for details.  Basic usage is::
+Coverage is tracked using the coverage plugins built for pytest or nose::
+
+    $ py.test test/sql/test_query --cov=sqlalchemy
 
     $ ./sqla_nose.py test.sql.test_query --with-coverage
 
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/exclusions.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/exclusions.py
index 9a713adaa..bcd593708 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/exclusions.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/exclusions.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 
 import operator
-from nose import SkipTest
+from .plugin.plugin_base import SkipTest
 from ..util import decorator
 from . import config
 from .. import util
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class Predicate(object):
     @classmethod
     def as_predicate(cls, predicate):
         if isinstance(predicate, skip_if):
-            return predicate.predicate
+            return NotPredicate(predicate.predicate)
         elif isinstance(predicate, Predicate):
             return predicate
         elif isinstance(predicate, list):
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/plugin/plugin_base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/plugin/plugin_base.py
index 6a2814109..b8a0fae96 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/plugin/plugin_base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/plugin/plugin_base.py
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ def post_begin():
     global util, fixtures, engines, exclusions, \
                     assertions, warnings, profiling,\
                     config, testing
-    from sqlalchemy import testing
     from sqlalchemy.testing import fixtures, engines, exclusions, \
                     assertions, warnings, profiling, config
     from sqlalchemy import util
diff --git a/test/dialect/test_oracle.py b/test/dialect/test_oracle.py
index 660a2a5e9..7e8ddffcd 100644
--- a/test/dialect/test_oracle.py
+++ b/test/dialect/test_oracle.py
@@ -1226,6 +1226,10 @@ class TypesTest(fixtures.TestBase):
         value = testing.db.scalar("SELECT 5.66 FROM DUAL")
         assert isinstance(value, decimal.Decimal)
 
+    @testing.only_on("oracle+cx_oracle", "cx_oracle-specific feature")
+    @testing.fails_if(
+                    testing.requires.python3,
+                    "cx_oracle always returns unicode on py3k")
     def test_coerce_to_unicode(self):
         engine = testing_engine(options=dict(coerce_to_unicode=True))
         value = engine.scalar("SELECT 'hello' FROM DUAL")