The -p X.Y abbreviated form does not work on Windows for Python 3.5+

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_cmdline.py b/tests/test_cmdline.py
index 9d8cdbd..9682ef0 100644
--- a/tests/test_cmdline.py
+++ b/tests/test_cmdline.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import sys
 import subprocess
 import virtualenv
+import pytest
 
 VIRTUALENV_SCRIPT = virtualenv.__file__
 
@@ -21,6 +22,12 @@ def test_commandline_explicit_interp(tmpdir):
         str(tmpdir.join('venv'))
     ])
 
+# The registry lookups to support the abbreviated "-p 3.5" form of specifying
+# a Python interpreter on Windows don't seem to work with Python 3.5. The
+# registry layout is not well documented, and it's not clear that the feature
+# is sufficiently widely used to be worth fixing.
+# See https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/864
+@pytest.mark.skipif("sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.version_info[:2] >= (3,5)")
 def test_commandline_abbrev_interp(tmpdir):
     """Specifying abbreviated forms of the Python interpreter should work"""
     if sys.platform == 'win32':