- Avoid cProfile on 2.4 (available via lsprof?)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/test/testlib/profiling.py b/test/testlib/profiling.py
index edaeabdad..b452d1fb8 100644
--- a/test/testlib/profiling.py
+++ b/test/testlib/profiling.py
@@ -165,11 +165,13 @@ def conditional_call_count(discriminator, categories):
 def _profile(filename, fn, *args, **kw):
     global profiler
     if not profiler:
-        try:
-            import cProfile
-            profiler = 'cProfile'
-        except ImportError:
-            profiler = 'hotshot'
+        profiler = 'hotshot'
+        if sys.version_info > (2, 5):
+            try:
+                import cProfile
+                profiler = 'cProfile'
+            except ImportError:
+                pass
 
     if profiler == 'cProfile':
         return _profile_cProfile(filename, fn, *args, **kw)