This patch avoids importing test runners such as :pypipytest,
:pypiunittest2, or :pypinose solely to access their special "skip
test" exception types - if the module is not in "sys.modules", the
exception can't be raised anyway.
This fixes a problem where importing an otherwise unused module could
cause spurious errors due to import-time side effects (and possibly
"-Werror").
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