From 74633815aa55f6e38ca2ac4072cc02fb247b43f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Maissy <brian.maissy@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 23:24:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] skip failing pdb/doctest test on mac

---
 changelog/985.bugfix | 1 +
 testing/test_pdb.py  | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/985.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog/985.bugfix b/changelog/985.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf4c2fe2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/985.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Skip failing pdb/doctest test on mac.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testing/test_pdb.py b/testing/test_pdb.py
index 8618473bb..ff6d994b5 100644
--- a/testing/test_pdb.py
+++ b/testing/test_pdb.py
@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ class TestPDB(object):
         child.read()
         self.flush(child)
 
+    # For some reason the interaction between doctest's and pytest's output
+    # capturing mechanisms are messing up the stdout on mac. (See #985).
+    # Should be solvable, but skipping until we have a chance to investigate.
+    @pytest.mark.skipif("sys.platform == 'darwin'")
     def test_pdb_interaction_doctest(self, testdir):
         p1 = testdir.makepyfile("""
             import pytest