Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_compileall.py b/Lib/test/test_compileall.py
index ba9fe465f8..fddb538efb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_compileall.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_compileall.py
@@ -39,11 +39,10 @@ class CompileallTests(unittest.TestCase):
         compare = struct.pack('<4sl', imp.get_magic(), mtime)
         return data, compare
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'stat'), 'test needs os.stat()')
     def recreation_check(self, metadata):
         """Check that compileall recreates bytecode when the new metadata is
         used."""
-        if not hasattr(os, 'stat'):
-            return
         py_compile.compile(self.source_path)
         self.assertEqual(*self.data())
         with open(self.bc_path, 'rb') as file: