Catch nis.error and raise TestFailed instead. This catches the
problem where Python is configured with the nismodule but NIS isn't
installed, or the map names don't correspond to those hardcoded in
nismodule.c (which is bogus in and of itself).
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_nis.py b/Lib/test/test_nis.py
index 9b3910d..0d345fe 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_nis.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_nis.py
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-from test_support import verbose
+from test_support import verbose, TestFailed
import nis
print 'nis.maps()'
-maps = nis.maps()
+try:
+ # the following could fail if NIS isn't active
+ maps = nis.maps()
+except nis.error, msg:
+ raise TestFailed, msg
+
done = 0
for nismap in maps:
if verbose: