-- changed test to work on platforms which have os.popen
but no os.fork
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_popen2.py b/Lib/test/test_popen2.py
index be79f3c..f6359ce 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_popen2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_popen2.py
@@ -5,11 +5,17 @@
# popen2 contains its own testing routine
# which is especially useful to see if open files
-# like stdin can be read successfully by a forked
+# like stdin can be read successfully by a forked
# subprocess.
def main():
- from os import fork # skips test through ImportError
+ try:
+ from os import popen
+ except ImportError:
+ # if we don't have os.popen, check that
+ # we have os.fork. if not, skip the test
+ # (by raising an ImportError)
+ from os import fork
import popen2
popen2._test()