diff --git a/python-lxml.changes b/python-lxml.changes
index 9580411..ad0c31b 100644
--- a/python-lxml.changes
+++ b/python-lxml.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 31 14:24:25 UTC 2017 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- run tests only when the appropriate pythons are available
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 18 06:05:54 UTC 2017 - thomas.schraitle@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-lxml.spec b/python-lxml.spec
index 52dd137..0d0ec37 100644
--- a/python-lxml.spec
+++ b/python-lxml.spec
@@ -90,8 +90,14 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 # The tests fail on SLE 11 due to broken incremental parsing
 # in libxml2
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x make test
-LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x make test3
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x
+%if 0%{?have_python2}
+make test
+%endif
+%if 0%{?have_python3}
+make test3
+%endif
 
 %install
 %python_install