Issue #8767: Restore building with --disable-unicode.
Original patch by Stefano Taschini.
diff --git a/Lib/test/script_helper.py b/Lib/test/script_helper.py
index 337854a..7f7c70e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/script_helper.py
+++ b/Lib/test/script_helper.py
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@
import py_compile
import contextlib
import shutil
-import zipfile
+try:
+ import zipfile
+except ImportError:
+ # If Python is build without Unicode support, importing _io will
+ # fail, which, in turn, means that zipfile cannot be imported
+ # Most of this module can then still be used.
+ pass
from test.test_support import strip_python_stderr