We cannot ignore PYTHONPATH here. Otherwise the test will try to use the installed multidict. --- multidict-6.6.4/tests/test_circular_imports.py.orig +++ multidict-6.6.4/tests/test_circular_imports.py @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ imp_cmd = ( # fmt: off sys.executable, - "-I", "-W", "error", "-c",