[issue12804] "make test" fails on systems without internet access

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Actually, the skip system is already supposed to work for that if used
> properly (see test.support.transient_internet()). However, perhaps it
> actually doesn't work in all situations.

It’s better than that: nearly all tests requiring network access use skips, it’s only a few modules like test_urllib*net that fails instead of skipping (certainly because it relied on the urlfetch resource being disabled by default).

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