Fix for issue #7072
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 4510409..7f0f61d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@
def get_enUS_locale():
global enUS_locale
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
- raise unittest.SkipTest("Locale support on MacOSX is minimal")
+ import os
+ tlocs = ("en_US.UTF-8", "en_US.ISO8859-1", "en_US")
+ if int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0]) < 10:
+ # The locale test work fine on OSX 10.6, I (ronaldoussoren)
+ # haven't had time yet to verify if tests work on OSX 10.5
+ # (10.4 is known to be bad)
+ raise unittest.SkipTest("Locale support on MacOSX is minimal")
if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
tlocs = ("En", "English")
else: