On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:09:01 +0100 barry.warsaw <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1de4d92cd6a4 changeset: 73258:1de4d92cd6a4 branch: 2.7 parent: 73253:7ce3b719306e user: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> date: Mon Oct 31 14:08:15 2011 -0400 summary: test_protocol_sslv2(): Skip this test if ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is not defined (as is the case with Ubuntu 11.10).

files: Lib/test/test_ssl.py | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py --- a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py @@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ @skip_if_broken_ubuntu_ssl def test_protocol_sslv2(self): """Connecting to an SSLv2 server with various client options""" + if not hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv2'): + raise unittest.SkipTest('No SSLv2 available') if test_support.verbose: sys.stdout.write("\n") if not hasattr(ssl, 'PROTOCOL_SSLv2'):

I'm not sure, but I've think you've just committed a no-op. (see http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5a080ebd311c) Regards Antoine.