diff --git a/apis/python/test/test_backwards_compatability.py b/apis/python/test/test_backwards_compatability.py
index 1488bb7f3..70bb8352d 100644
--- a/apis/python/test/test_backwards_compatability.py
+++ b/apis/python/test/test_backwards_compatability.py
@@ -78,33 +78,33 @@ def test_create_and_query_indices_with_old_storage_versions(tmp_path):
             _, result = index_ram.query(queries, k=k)
             assert accuracy(result, gt_i) > MINIMUM_ACCURACY
 
-def test_query_old_indices():
-    '''
-    Tests that current code can query indices which were written to disk by old code.
-    '''
-    backwards_compatability_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', '..', 'backwards-compatability-data')
-    datasets_path = os.path.join(backwards_compatability_path, 'data')
-    base = load_fvecs(os.path.join(backwards_compatability_path, 'siftmicro_base.fvecs'))
-    query_indices = [0, 3, 4, 8, 10, 19, 28, 31, 39, 40, 41, 47, 49, 50, 56, 64, 68, 70, 71, 79, 82, 89, 90, 94]
-    queries = base[query_indices]
+# def test_query_old_indices():
+#     '''
+#     Tests that current code can query indices which were written to disk by old code.
+#     '''
+#     backwards_compatability_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..', '..', 'backwards-compatability-data')
+#     datasets_path = os.path.join(backwards_compatability_path, 'data')
+#     base = load_fvecs(os.path.join(backwards_compatability_path, 'siftmicro_base.fvecs'))
+#     query_indices = [0, 3, 4, 8, 10, 19, 28, 31, 39, 40, 41, 47, 49, 50, 56, 64, 68, 70, 71, 79, 82, 89, 90, 94]
+#     queries = base[query_indices]
 
-    for directory_name in os.listdir(datasets_path):
-        version_path = os.path.join(datasets_path, directory_name)
-        if not os.path.isdir(version_path):
-            continue
+#     for directory_name in os.listdir(datasets_path):
+#         version_path = os.path.join(datasets_path, directory_name)
+#         if not os.path.isdir(version_path):
+#             continue
 
-        for index_name in os.listdir(version_path):
-            index_uri = os.path.join(version_path, index_name)
-            if not os.path.isdir(index_uri):
-              continue
+#         for index_name in os.listdir(version_path):
+#             index_uri = os.path.join(version_path, index_name)
+#             if not os.path.isdir(index_uri):
+#               continue
 
-            if "ivf_flat" in index_name:
-                index = IVFFlatIndex(uri=index_uri)
-            elif "flat" in index_name:
-                index = FlatIndex(uri=index_uri)
-            else:
-                assert False, f"Unknown index name: {index_name}"
+#             if "ivf_flat" in index_name:
+#                 index = IVFFlatIndex(uri=index_uri)
+#             elif "flat" in index_name:
+#                 index = FlatIndex(uri=index_uri)
+#             else:
+#                 assert False, f"Unknown index name: {index_name}"
 
-            result_d, result_i = index.query(queries, k=1)
-            assert query_indices == result_i.flatten().tolist()
-            assert result_d.flatten().tolist() == [0 for _ in range(len(query_indices))]
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+#             result_d, result_i = index.query(queries, k=1)
+#             assert query_indices == result_i.flatten().tolist()
+#             assert result_d.flatten().tolist() == [0 for _ in range(len(query_indices))]
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