MAINT: Remove nose.SkipTest import.

This was only needed for Python 2.6 as it is available from unittest in
later Python versions.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/testing/utils.py b/numpy/testing/utils.py
index 133330a12..9511e00be 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/utils.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/utils.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from functools import partial
 import shutil
 import contextlib
 from tempfile import mkdtemp, mkstemp
+from unittest.case import SkipTest
 
 from .nosetester import import_nose
 from numpy.core import float32, empty, arange, array_repr, ndarray
@@ -38,20 +39,11 @@ class KnownFailureException(Exception):
     '''Raise this exception to mark a test as a known failing test.'''
     pass
 
-KnownFailureTest = KnownFailureException  # backwards compat
-
-
-# nose.SkipTest is unittest.case.SkipTest
-# import it into the namespace, so that it's available as np.testing.SkipTest
-try:
-    from unittest.case import SkipTest
-except ImportError:
-    # on py2.6 unittest.case is not available. Ask nose for a replacement.
-    SkipTest = import_nose().SkipTest
-
 
+KnownFailureTest = KnownFailureException  # backwards compat
 verbose = 0
 
+
 def assert_(val, msg=''):
     """
     Assert that works in release mode.