Skip a behave step in the step implementation

Question

Is there a way to tell behave in a step implementation to skip the current step?

Something like:

@given("bla bla bla")
def step():
    skip_current_step()

The use case is that I want to check if some additional software is installed. If not, I want the complete scenario to be skipped.

Answer 1

I don't know if you can skip from inside of a step, but you can skip a whole scenario at feature level:

def before_feature(context, feature):
    is_software_installed = some_foo_magic()

    if not is_software_installed:
        for scenario in feature.scenarios:
            if depends_on_software(scenario):
                scenario.mark_skipped()

Feature, Scenario, and ScenarioOutline all have a mark_skipped() method.