Unicode TestApp Response __contains__ test works (#235)

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index b523abb..481a155 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ svn trunk
 * ``paste.fixture.TestApp`` can store multiple cookie values
   (previously only one cookie was stored; from Andrey Lebedev)
 
+* ``u'' in TestApp(app).get('/')`` will work when the body isn't ASCII
+  (before it would give a unicode error).  This problem wasn't present
+  in the recommended `WebTest <http://pythonpaste.org/webtest/>`_.
+
 1.6.1
 -----
 
diff --git a/paste/fixture.py b/paste/fixture.py
index 8c569f7..38b9d24 100644
--- a/paste/fixture.py
+++ b/paste/fixture.py
@@ -792,6 +792,9 @@ class TestResponse(object):
         """
         if not isinstance(s, (str, unicode)):
             s = str(s)
+        if isinstance(s, unicode):
+            ## FIXME: we don't know that this response uses utf8:
+            s = s.encode('utf8')
         return (self.body.find(s) != -1
                 or self.normal_body.find(s) != -1)