diff --git a/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.35.0-r1.ebuild b/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.35.0-r1.ebuild
index 365ad1eabedfc..e958e31655267 100644
--- a/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.35.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/www-servers/nginx-unit/nginx-unit-1.35.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ src_configure() {
 }
 
 src_test() {
-	epytest '-opython_files=test_python*.py'
+	use python && epytest '-opython_files=test_python*.py'
 }
 
 src_install() {