TST: skip cffi tests when PYTHONOPTIMIZE>1, pycparser fails

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/random/tests/test_direct.py b/numpy/random/tests/test_direct.py
index 34d7bd278..9f77f0ad2 100644
--- a/numpy/random/tests/test_direct.py
+++ b/numpy/random/tests/test_direct.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 from os.path import join
+import sys
 
 import numpy as np
 from numpy.testing import (assert_equal, assert_allclose, assert_array_equal,
@@ -26,6 +27,12 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     MISSING_CTYPES = False
 
+if sys.flags.optimize > 1:
+    # no docstrings present to inspect when PYTHONOPTIMIZE/Py_OptimizeFlag > 1
+    # cffi cannot succeed
+    MISSING_CFFI = True
+
+
 pwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 
 
diff --git a/numpy/random/tests/test_extending.py b/numpy/random/tests/test_extending.py
index 607853663..daa153cee 100644
--- a/numpy/random/tests/test_extending.py
+++ b/numpy/random/tests/test_extending.py
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     cffi = None
 
+if sys.flags.optimize > 1:
+    # no docstrings present to inspect when PYTHONOPTIMIZE/Py_OptimizeFlag > 1
+    # cffi cannot succeed
+    cffi = None
+
 try:
     with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
         # numba issue gh-4733