diff -u ruamel-yaml-ff02b83b8f91/_test/test_anchor.py.pytest27 ruamel-yaml-ff02b83b8f91/_test/test_anchor.py
--- ruamel-yaml-ff02b83b8f91/_test/test_anchor.py.pytest27	2019-08-27 10:59:01.756747586 +0100
+++ ruamel-yaml-ff02b83b8f91/_test/test_anchor.py	2019-08-27 11:00:15.929713043 +0100
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 """

 import pytest
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from textwrap import dedent
 import platform

@@ -248,6 +249,7 @@
         )

     # this is an error in PyYAML
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(LooseVersion(pytest.__version__) < LooseVersion("2.8"), reason="Need pytest 2.7")
     def test_reused_anchor(self):
         from ruamel.yaml.error import ReusedAnchorWarning