From af33fb16f7f602158a6d277a27037575c5c83eda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hpk <none@none>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:36:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [svn r58026] avoiding an issue with older pexpect versions

--HG--
branch : trunk
---
 py/test/testing/acceptance_test.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/py/test/testing/acceptance_test.py b/py/test/testing/acceptance_test.py
index b3e1a5dce..bd6131817 100644
--- a/py/test/testing/acceptance_test.py
+++ b/py/test/testing/acceptance_test.py
@@ -389,8 +389,12 @@ class TestInteractive(AcceptBase):
     def getspawn(self):
         try:
             import pexpect
-        except ImportError:
-            py.test.skip("need pexpect")
+            ver = tuple(map(int, pexpect.__version__.split(".")))
+            if ver < (2,3): # because sendeof() fails on sys.stdin.fileno() otherwise 
+                            # because we are running captured  
+                raise AttributeError
+        except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+            py.test.skip("need pexpect version >= 2.3")
         def spawn(cmd):
             return pexpect.spawn(cmd, logfile=self.tmpdir.join("spawn.out").open("w"))
         return spawn