Module-level skip no longer works

[astrofrog]

I used to make use of the ability to invoke pytest.skip to skip a whole test file (rather than having to decorate dozens of functions):

if not SOME_PACKAGE_INSTALLED:
    pytest.skip()

but am now getting errors with pytest 3.0:

Using @pytest.skip outside of a test (e.g. as a test function decorator) is not allowed. Use @pytest.mark.skip or @pytest.mark.skipif instead.

Is there a way to simply skip a whole file instead?

[The-Compiler]

Are you aware of pytest.importorskip? That seems to fit your usecase nicely - instead of:

try:
    import some_package
except ImportError:
    pytest.skip()

do:

some_package = pytest.importorskip('some_package')

[nicoddemus]

We have removed this ability because it was a common error to use pytest.skip as a decorator (as opposed to using pytest.mark.skip as a decorator) and skip the entire module instead of just the decorated test.

importorskip is probably the best choice if you are just checking if a package is installed like @The-Compiler said, but if you have some other condition that you would like to check as well, you can set a pytestmark global variable:

if not SOME_RUNTIME_CONDITION:
    pytestmark = pytest.mark.skip(reason='reasons')

[astrofrog]

@The-Compiler @nicoddemus importorskip fits my needs, thanks! (and good to know about the other way too just in case)