From e3685f6b1b27bf089a40a12492f952dda5ff3ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ezio Melotti <none@none>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:12:51 +0300
Subject: #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
 accepted too.

---
 Lib/test/test_unicode.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/test/test_unicode.py')

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index ae4c355f48..bd43dbc57b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -442,6 +442,17 @@ class UnicodeTest(
                 return u'\u1234'
         self.assertEqual('%s' % Wrapper(), u'\u1234')
 
+    def test_startswith_endswith_errors(self):
+        for meth in (u'foo'.startswith, u'foo'.endswith):
+            with self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError):
+                meth('\xff')
+            with self.assertRaises(TypeError) as cm:
+                meth(['f'])
+            exc = str(cm.exception)
+            self.assertIn('unicode', exc)
+            self.assertIn('str', exc)
+            self.assertIn('tuple', exc)
+
     @test_support.run_with_locale('LC_ALL', 'de_DE', 'fr_FR')
     def test_format_float(self):
         # should not format with a comma, but always with C locale
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