Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Wouldn't it be simpler to write (untested):
def skipUnlessCompressionModule(name): """ Skip if the specified compression module is not available. Must e a string, currently any of 'gzip', 'bz2', or 'lzma'. """ return unittest.skipUnless(globals()[name], '{} not available'.format(name)) ? ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17689> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com