From 97bef04521bb37f062882f8a6bc59a66efc87777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jeong, YunWon" <69878+youknowone@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:52:16 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] gh-143959: Make _datetime optional for test_sys (GH-144003)
 (cherry picked from commit c447d1bc146bcf7707a619779bdcc03651adb5e3)

Co-authored-by: Jeong, YunWon <69878+youknowone@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Lib/test/test_sys.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 7b4901040ba0f1..786832d3e35b0e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import builtins
 import codecs
-import _datetime
 import gc
 import io
 import locale
@@ -1740,7 +1739,12 @@ def delx(self): del self.__x
             x = property(getx, setx, delx, "")
             check(x, size('5Pi'))
         # PyCapsule
-        check(_datetime.datetime_CAPI, size('6P'))
+        try:
+            import _datetime
+        except ModuleNotFoundError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            check(_datetime.datetime_CAPI, size('6P'))
         # rangeiterator
         check(iter(range(1)), size('3l'))
         check(iter(range(2**65)), size('3P'))