diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 569dc27..197b11b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 language: python
 python:
   - "2.7"
-  - "3.5"
+  # - "3.5" # looks like ruamel.ordereddict doesn't build for python3
 # command to install dependencies
 install: "pip install -r requirements.txt"
 # command to run tests