From cbbbfcd1011a7127761663928056e230aecbe3f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: holger krekel <holger@merlinux.eu>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:38:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix collection imports for python2.5

---
 _pytest/assertion/util.py |  6 +++++-
 testing/conftest.py       |  2 +-
 testing/test_assertion.py | 14 ++++++++------
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_pytest/assertion/util.py b/_pytest/assertion/util.py
index 611b330c0..ad8ed070f 100644
--- a/_pytest/assertion/util.py
+++ b/_pytest/assertion/util.py
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ import py
 try:
     from collections.abc import Sequence
 except ImportError:
-    from collections import Sequence
+    try:
+        from collections import Sequence
+    except ImportError:
+        Sequence = list
+
 
 BuiltinAssertionError = py.builtin.builtins.AssertionError
 
diff --git a/testing/conftest.py b/testing/conftest.py
index 66019e939..b4c06e5ee 100644
--- a/testing/conftest.py
+++ b/testing/conftest.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
             for val in l:
                 metafunc.addcall(funcargs={name: val})
     elif 'anypython' in metafunc.fixturenames:
-        for name in ('python2.4', 'python2.5', 'python2.6',
+        for name in ('python2.5', 'python2.6',
                      'python2.7', 'python3.2', "python3.3",
                      'pypy', 'jython'):
             metafunc.addcall(id=name, param=name)
diff --git a/testing/test_assertion.py b/testing/test_assertion.py
index 4ebb80305..8b98a7292 100644
--- a/testing/test_assertion.py
+++ b/testing/test_assertion.py
@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ import sys
 import py, pytest
 import _pytest.assertion as plugin
 from _pytest.assertion import reinterpret, util
-try:
-    from collections.abc import MutableSequence
-except ImportError:
-    from collections import MutableSequence
-
-
 needsnewassert = pytest.mark.skipif("sys.version_info < (2,6)")
 
 
@@ -122,6 +116,14 @@ class TestAssert_reprcompare:
         assert len(expl) > 1
 
     def test_Sequence(self):
+        col = py.builtin._tryimport(
+            "collections.abc",
+            "collections",
+            "sys")
+        if not hasattr(col, "MutableSequence"):
+            pytest.skip("cannot import MutableSequence")
+        MutableSequence = col.MutableSequence
+
         class TestSequence(MutableSequence):  # works with a Sequence subclass
             def __init__(self, iterable):
                 self.elements = list(iterable)