Made tests less verbose by not using distutils.core.setup + skip debugger tests when gdb < 7.2 or not available

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Cython/Debugger/libpython.py b/Cython/Debugger/libpython.py
index 07a57a49c..b871756ee 100644
--- a/Cython/Debugger/libpython.py
+++ b/Cython/Debugger/libpython.py
@@ -59,9 +59,13 @@ import itertools
 
 import gdb
 
-# I think this is the only way to fix this bug :'(
-# http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12285
-reload(sys).setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')
+if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+    # I think this is the only way to fix this bug :'(
+    # http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12285
+    out, err = sys.stdout, sys.stderr
+    reload(sys).setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')
+    sys.stdout = out
+    sys.stderr = err
 
 # Look up the gdb.Type for some standard types:
 _type_char_ptr = gdb.lookup_type('char').pointer() # char*