Using current default branch:

FAIL: test_find_mac (test.test_uuid.TestUUID)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Code\Python\lib\test\test_uuid.py", line 378, in test_find_mac
    self.assertEqual(mac, 0x1234567890ab)
AssertionError: None != 20015998341291

Seeing the same failure on a buildbot:

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/3474/steps/test/logs/stdio

New changeset e5b7f140ae30 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7':
Skip test_find_mac on Windows (issue #19804).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e5b7f140ae30

New changeset dfadce7635ce by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.3':
Skip test_find_mac on Windows (issue #19804).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dfadce7635ce

New changeset 4d5c3cb08170 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Skip test_find_mac on Windows (issue #19804).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4d5c3cb08170

Thank you Tim for your report.

I see the same failure of this test on my system (Gentoo Linux, amd64, ifconfig available) on all branches (2.7, 3.3, default).

Where ifconfig is located?

/bin/ifconfig
(/bin is in ${PATH}.)

This test passes (on all branches) after adding "/bin" to hardcoded list in uuid._find_mac().

Minimal solution: Add "/bin" and "/usr/bin" to that list.
Better solution: Search ${PATH}+['/sbin/', '/usr/sbin'] for "ifconfig". In >=3.2 os.get_exec_path() can be used.

This is different issue. See issue19855.

The test currently uses:
@unittest.skipUnless(os.name == 'posix', 'requires Posix')

Maybe this test should be skipped also on posix systems with ifconfig not available at all?

When someone will report about failures on such systems.

When building for Fedora, we usually use minimal buildroot, that doesn't have net-tools (e.g. ifconfig and others) installed, so this test fails for us. It'd probably be best to skip this based on whether ifconfig binary can be found or not.

Perhaps it would be better just use other executable (it is not ran in this test, just checked that it exists). Bohuslav, what is a content of your /sbin and /usr/sbin?

Attaching a list of files in /usr/sbin in Fedora's minimal buildroot. (Note, that in Fedora /sbin is a symlink to /usr/sbin.)
FWIW I can workaround this issue by adding net-tools to BuildRequires, so this is no big pain for me.

Thank you Bohuslav. Unfortunately I don't see good replacement for ifconfig, any of these executables can be absent (e.g. chroot can be built in BusyBox). So I'll left ifconfig and adds checks for its accessibility.

You can workaround this issue by adding an executable with name ifconfig to your PATH. For example:

bin_for_test_uuid="$HOME/bin_for_test_uuid"
mkdir "$bin_for_test_uuid"
ln -s /bin/true "$bin_for_test_uuid/ifconfig"
export PATH="$PATH:$bin_for_test_uuid"
./python -m test.regrtest test_uuid

New changeset 34ae4333d3bf by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7':
Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/34ae4333d3bf

New changeset 201077b57fe0 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.3':
Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/201077b57fe0

New changeset 51dc9b2a5b35 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/51dc9b2a5b35