--- a/_test/test_yamlfile.py
+++ b/_test/test_yamlfile.py
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@
     @pytest.mark.skipif(
         sys.version_info >= (3, 0) or platform.python_implementation() != 'CPython',
         reason='ruamel.yaml not available',
     )
     def test_dump_ruamel_ordereddict(self):
-        from ruamel.ordereddict import ordereddict
+        ordereddict = pytest.importorskip('ruamel.ordereddict').ordereddict
         import ruamel.yaml  # NOQA
 
         # OrderedDict mapped to !!omap
         x = ordereddict([('a', 1), ('b', 2)])
         res = ruamel.yaml.dump(x, Dumper=ruamel.yaml.RoundTripDumper, default_flow_style=False)