diff -r 829117ae2e55 Lib/test/test_posix.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py	Tue Jul 19 16:46:09 2016 -0500
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py	Thu Jul 21 17:42:13 2016 +0200
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 import warnings
+from test.support import is_android
 
 _DUMMY_SYMLINK = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(),
                               support.TESTFN + '-dummy-symlink')
@@ -797,7 +798,11 @@
             groups = idg.read().strip()
             ret = idg.close()
 
-        if ret is not None or not groups:
+        try:
+            idg_groups = [int(g) for g in groups.split()]
+        except ValueError:
+            idg_groups = []
+        if ret is not None or not idg_groups:
             raise unittest.SkipTest("need working 'id -G'")
 
         # Issues 16698: OS X ABIs prior to 10.6 have limits on getgroups()
@@ -807,13 +812,17 @@
             if tuple(int(n) for n in dt.split('.')[0:2]) < (10, 6):
                 raise unittest.SkipTest("getgroups(2) is broken prior to 10.6")
 
+        posix_groups = posix.getgroups()
+        # #10822 - it is implementation defined whether posix.getgroups()
+        # includes the effective gid so we include it anyway, since id -G
+        # does.  Except on Android where the effective group id is not
+        # included in 'id -G' and not in posix.getgroups() either.
+        if not is_android:
+            posix_groups.append(posix.getegid())
+
         # 'id -G' and 'os.getgroups()' should return the same
         # groups, ignoring order and duplicates.
-        # #10822 - it is implementation defined whether posix.getgroups()
-        # includes the effective gid so we include it anyway, since id -G does
-        self.assertEqual(
-                set([int(x) for x in groups.split()]),
-                set(posix.getgroups() + [posix.getegid()]))
+        self.assertEqual(set(idg_groups), set(posix_groups))
 
     # tests for the posix *at functions follow