diff --git a/Lib/test/test_locale.py b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
index 46cbee2b53d..d15bd283bf9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_locale.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_locale.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-from test.test_support import verbose
+from test.test_support import verbose, TestSkipped
 import locale
 import sys
 
+if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+	raise TestSkipped("Locale support on MacOSX is minimal and cannot be tested")
 oldlocale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC)
 
 tloc = "en_US"