Skip some tests that require a subinterpreter launched with -E or -I when the

interpreter under test is being run in an environment that requires the use of
environment variables such as PYTHONHOME in order to function at all.

Adds a private test.script_helper._interpreter_requires_environment() function
to be used with @unittest.skipIf on stdlib test methods requiring this.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tracemalloc.py b/Lib/test/test_tracemalloc.py
index bc22450f0f..48ccab28b8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tracemalloc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tracemalloc.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import tracemalloc
 import unittest
 from unittest.mock import patch
 from test.script_helper import assert_python_ok, assert_python_failure
-from test import support
+from test import script_helper, support
 try:
     import threading
 except ImportError:
@@ -755,6 +755,8 @@ class TestCommandLine(unittest.TestCase):
         stdout = stdout.rstrip()
         self.assertEqual(stdout, b'False')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(script_helper._interpreter_requires_environment(),
+                     'Cannot run -E tests when PYTHON env vars are required.')
     def test_env_var_ignored_with_E(self):
         """PYTHON* environment variables must be ignored when -E is present."""
         code = 'import tracemalloc; print(tracemalloc.is_tracing())'