skip _locale test if OS X < 10.4
diff --git a/Lib/test/test__locale.py b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
index 4d7be16..ef4fe8d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test__locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test__locale.py
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
from _locale import (setlocale, LC_NUMERIC, RADIXCHAR, THOUSEP, nl_langinfo,
localeconv, Error)
import unittest
+from platform import uname
+
+if uname()[0] == "Darwin":
+ maj, min, mic = [int(part) for part in uname()[2].split(".")]
+ if (maj, min, mic) < (8, 0, 0):
+ raise TestSkipped("locale support broken for OS X < 10.4")
candidate_locales = ['es_UY', 'fr_FR', 'fi_FI', 'es_CO', 'pt_PT', 'it_IT',
'et_EE', 'es_PY', 'no_NO', 'nl_NL', 'lv_LV', 'el_GR', 'be_BY', 'fr_BE',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5eb20ab..df0e16e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
+present).
+
- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
codes.