1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bs4/testing.py b/bs4/testing.py
index 967261d..0008821 100644
--- a/bs4/testing.py
+++ b/bs4/testing.py
@@ -4,14 +4,18 @@ import unittest
 from unittest import TestCase
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from bs4.element import Comment, SoupStrainer
-from bs4.builder import LXMLTreeBuilder
-
+try:
+    from bs4.builder import LXMLTreeBuilder
+    default_builder = LXMLTreeBuilder
+except ImportError, e:
+    from bs4.builder import HTMLParserTreeBuilder
+    default_builder = HTMLParserTreeBuilder
 
 class SoupTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @property
     def default_builder(self):
-        return LXMLTreeBuilder()
+        return default_builder()
 
     def soup(self, markup, **kwargs):
         """Build a Beautiful Soup object from markup."""