Change more tests to use import_module for the modules that
should cause tests to be skipped. Also rename import_function
to the more descriptive get_attribute and add a docstring.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index 4388fe0..105a743 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -17,20 +17,19 @@
import socket
import random
import logging
+import test_support
+_multiprocessing = test_support.import_module('_multiprocessing')
+
# Work around broken sem_open implementations
-try:
- import multiprocessing.synchronize
-except ImportError, e:
- raise unittest.SkipTest(e)
+test_support.import_module('multiprocessing.synchronize')
import multiprocessing.dummy
import multiprocessing.connection
import multiprocessing.managers
import multiprocessing.heap
import multiprocessing.pool
-import _multiprocessing
from multiprocessing import util