sympy/sympy — pull request #7837 by pbrady (2014-08-07 15:51:21+00:00)
Title: blacklist mpmath tests

Following the discussion in #7830, I propose blacklisting the mpmath tests for the following reasons:

1. mpmath (at least in sympy) is a static code base so there is no need to test it repeatedly.

2. changes to sympy do not affect the functionality of mpmath so there is no need to test mpmath when changes are made to sympy

3. the interaction of mpmath and sympy should be tested - but there is already done where they interact (i.e. in Polys and such), the mpmath tests do not test this interaction

4. mpmath is it's own project tested via travis.

5. mpmath causes random test failures: #5821, #7403

The procedure for blacklisting is taken from the doctest function which already blacklists mpmath.