A better way to deal with 2.6 missing SkipTest

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/misc.py b/coverage/misc.py
index c5f8f20e..b3b439c4 100644
--- a/coverage/misc.py
+++ b/coverage/misc.py
@@ -284,7 +284,11 @@ class ExceptionDuringRun(CoverageException):
     pass
 
 
-class StopEverything(unittest.SkipTest if env.TESTING else object):
+# unittest.SkipTest doesn't exist in Python 2.6. We backport it with
+# unittest2 in the coverage.py test suite.  But for production, we don't need
+# to derive from SkipTest, so if it doesn't exist, just use object.
+
+class StopEverything(getattr(unittest, 'SkipTest', object)):
     """An exception that means everything should stop.
 
     This derives from SkipTest so that tests that spring this trap will be