From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:00:19 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: skip the extractall test on platforms where os.symlink is not available.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.2rc1~103
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3eb7d3454685d8dfe45dcba148b6f115b77431b;p=python

skip the extractall test on platforms where os.symlink is not available.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index ef3bf8b411..f78f9ce03f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ class WriteTest(WriteTestBase):
         finally:
             os.chdir(cwd)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'symlink'), "needs os.symlink")
     def test_extractall_symlinks(self):
         # Test if extractall works properly when tarfile contains symlinks
         tempdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks")