Tests require mpi4py with openmpi. Index: h5py/tests/test_file.py --- h5py/tests/test_file.py.orig +++ h5py/tests/test_file.py @@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ class TestPickle(TestCase): # unittest doesn't work with pytest fixtures (and possibly other features), # hence no subclassing TestCase @pytest.mark.mpi +@pytest.mark.skip(reason="fixture 'mpi_file_name' not present") class TestMPI: def test_mpio(self, mpi_file_name): """ MPIO driver and options """