diff -r 6c6ee4eb27f8 Lib/test/test_capi.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py	Sat Jun 25 12:04:45 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py	Sat Jun 25 12:35:45 2011 +0200
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@
 
 class EmbeddingTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(
+        sys.platform.startswith('win'),
+        "Modules/_testembed is an ELF file, and can't be executed on Windows")
     def test_subinterps(self):
         # XXX only tested under Unix checkouts
         basepath = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))