# Module: `testing.skipdoctest`

Decorators marks that a doctest should be skipped, for both python 2 and 3.

The IPython.testing.decorators module triggers various extra imports, including numpy and sympy if they’re present. Since this decorator is used in core parts of IPython, it’s in a separate module so that running IPython doesn’t trigger those imports.

## 2 Functions

`IPython.testing.skipdoctest.``skip_doctest`(f)

  Decorator - mark a function or method for skipping its doctest.

  This decorator allows you to mark a function whose docstring you wish to omit from testing, while preserving the docstring for introspection, help, etc.

`IPython.testing.skipdoctest.``skip_doctest_py3`(f)

  Decorator - skip the doctest under Python 3.