use skip decorator
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_select.py b/Lib/test/test_select.py
index 52805e6..fd7c8d0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_select.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_select.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
import os
import sys
+@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform[:3] in ('win', 'mac', 'os2', 'riscos'),
+ "can't easily test on this system")
class SelectTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
class Nope:
@@ -20,10 +22,6 @@
self.assertRaises(TypeError, select.select, [], [], [], "not a number")
def test_select(self):
- if sys.platform[:3] in ('win', 'mac', 'os2', 'riscos'):
- if test_support.verbose:
- print "Can't test select easily on", sys.platform
- return
cmd = 'for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo testing...; sleep 1; done'
p = os.popen(cmd, 'r')
for tout in (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16) + (None,)*10: