Yes now I understand. If a subtest fails, there is no status update (not even a newline in verbose mode), and each subtest skip triggers a separate status update.

My gut feeling is that any subtest failure should be counted as the whole test failing. I’m not sure how the failure vs error cases should be handled. Maybe error should trump failure.

Judging by <https://bugs.python.org/issue16997#msg180259>, Antoine intended for SkipTest to skip subtests. But I’m not sure that be reported as the whole test being skipped.