[Python-Dev] Testsuite dependency on _testcapi

[Victor Stinner]

On 09/03/2012 20:44, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> (...)  it would be nice to still
> run the tests that can be run without _testcapi. Any objections to
> fixing the tests to use test.support.import_module() for _testcapi and a
> 'needs_testcapi' skipping decorator?

test.support.import_module() looks fine for such issue.

I'm guilty of adding new "from _testcapi import ..." in some tests 
(test_unicode at least). You add a test.support.import_module() in such 
test.


Victor