- skip this test for py3k. serializer kind of a bust

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/ext/test_serializer.py b/test/ext/test_serializer.py
index 84fff1304..f673d5699 100644
--- a/test/ext/test_serializer.py
+++ b/test/ext/test_serializer.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class SerializeTest(fixtures.MappedTest):
         eq_(q2.all(), [User(name='fred')])
         eq_(list(q2.values(User.id, User.name)), [(9, 'fred')])
 
-    @testing.requires.non_broken_pickle
+    @testing.requires.bulletproof_pickle
     def test_query_three(self):
         ua = aliased(User)
         q = \
diff --git a/test/requirements.py b/test/requirements.py
index 973ad9a10..aa36dcf85 100644
--- a/test/requirements.py
+++ b/test/requirements.py
@@ -581,6 +581,14 @@ class DefaultRequirements(SuiteRequirements):
         )
 
     @property
+    def bulletproof_pickle(self):
+        from sqlalchemy.util import pickle
+        return only_if(
+            lambda: pickle.__name__ == 'cPickle' and sys.version_info < (3, 0),
+            "Needs Python 2.x cPickle"
+        )
+
+    @property
     def predictable_gc(self):
         """target platform must remove all cycles unconditionally when
         gc.collect() is called, as well as clean out unreferenced subclasses.