diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_parsing.i b/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_parsing.i
index 21b51bc51..40f37a4c2 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_parsing.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/doxygen_parsing.i
@@ -132,4 +132,9 @@ struct SomeAnotherStruct
 	}
 };
 
+#ifdef SWIGPYTHON_BUILTIN
+bool is_python_builtin() { return true; }
+#else
+bool is_python_builtin() { return false; }
+#endif
 %}
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/doxygen_parsing_runme.py b/Examples/test-suite/python/doxygen_parsing_runme.py
index f09f50761..80e8892fa 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/doxygen_parsing_runme.py
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/doxygen_parsing_runme.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ comment_verifier.check(inspect.getdoc(doxygen_parsing.SomeAnotherClass),
 # There doesn't seem to be any way to specify the doc string for __init__ when
 # using "-builtin" (see http://stackoverflow.com/q/11913492/15275), so skip
 # this test in this case.
-if str(os.environ.get('SWIG_FEATURES')).find('-builtin') == -1:
+if not doxygen_parsing.is_python_builtin():
     comment_verifier.check(inspect.getdoc(doxygen_parsing.SomeAnotherClass.__init__),
     r"""*Overload 1:*
 First overloaded constructor.