Skip unicode dist and related test on Python < 3.6

Due to encoding issues, this ends up failing in certain cases and there is nothing wheel can do about it.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 1b8aa99..eb85272 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ import pytest
 @pytest.fixture(scope='session')
 def wheels_and_eggs(tmpdir_factory):
     """Build wheels and eggs from test distributions."""
-    test_distributions = "complex-dist", "simple.dist", "headers.dist", "unicode.dist"
+    test_distributions = "complex-dist", "simple.dist", "headers.dist"
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 6):
+        # Only Python 3.6+ can handle packaging unicode file names reliably
+        # across different platforms
+        test_distributions += ("unicode.dist",)
+
     pwd = os.path.abspath(os.curdir)
     this_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
     build_dir = tmpdir_factory.mktemp('build')
diff --git a/tests/test_bdist_wheel.py b/tests/test_bdist_wheel.py
index 40ce37f..729a6a2 100644
--- a/tests/test_bdist_wheel.py
+++ b/tests/test_bdist_wheel.py
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ def test_no_scripts(wheel_paths):
         assert '.data/scripts/' not in entry.filename
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3, 6),
+                    reason='Packaging unicode file names only works reliably on Python 3.6+')
 def test_unicode_record(wheel_paths):
     path = next(path for path in wheel_paths if 'unicode.dist' in path)
     with ZipFile(path) as zf: