Skip a couple of new tests on Windows, because this method doesn't seem

able to capture the C-level fprintf(stderr)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/testing/support.py b/testing/support.py
index 62643fc..c26bc91 100644
--- a/testing/support.py
+++ b/testing/support.py
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ class FdWriteCapture(object):
     to the Posix manual."""
 
     def __init__(self, capture_fd=2):    # stderr by default
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            import py
+            py.test.skip("seems not to work, too bad")
         self.capture_fd = capture_fd
 
     def __enter__(self):