diff -r 258558e36d8a Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py	Mon Aug 20 10:04:26 2012 +1000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py	Mon Aug 20 11:26:10 2012 +1000
@@ -40,8 +40,11 @@
 
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, urllib.request.urlopen, 'bogus url')
 
-        # XXX Name hacking to get this to work on Windows.
-        fname = os.path.abspath(urllib.request.__file__).replace('\\', '/')
+        # Name hacking to get this to work on Windows.
+        if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+            fname = os.path.abspath(urllib.request.__file__).replace('\\', '/')
+        else:
+            fname = urllib.request.__file__
 
         if os.name == 'nt':
             file_url = "file:///%s" % fname