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diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/unicode_strings_runme.py b/Examples/test-suite/python/unicode_strings_runme.py
index 108d0d2c9..57bd7abca 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/unicode_strings_runme.py
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/unicode_strings_runme.py
@@ -15,21 +15,24 @@ def check(s1, s2):
# Testing SWIG_PYTHON_2_UNICODE flag which allows unicode strings to be passed to C
if sys.version_info[0:2] < (3, 0):
+ # Python 3.0-3.2 results in a SyntaxError when using u"" string literals, so we use a
+ # convoluted unicode string construction using unicode() and unichr().
+ # Conventional Python 2 syntax shown in comments.
check(unicode_strings.charstring("hello1"), "hello1")
- check(unicode_strings.charstring(str(u"hello2")), "hello2")
- check(unicode_strings.charstring(u"hello3"), "hello3")
+ check(unicode_strings.charstring(str(unicode("hello2"))), "hello2") # u"hello2"
+ check(unicode_strings.charstring(unicode("hello3")), "hello3") # u"hello3"
check(unicode_strings.charstring(str("hello4")), "hello4")
- unicode_strings.charstring(u"hell\xb05")
- unicode_strings.charstring(u"hell\u00f66")
- low_surrogate_string = u"\udcff"
+ unicode_strings.charstring(unicode("hell" + unichr(0xb0) + "5")) # u"hell\xb05"
+ unicode_strings.charstring(unicode("hell" + unichr(0x00f6) +"6")) # u"hell\u00f66"
+ low_surrogate_string = unichr(0xdcff) # u"\udcff"
+ unicode_strings.instring(low_surrogate_string)
else:
low_surrogate_string = "\udcff"
-
-try:
- unicode_strings.instring(low_surrogate_string)
- # Will succeed with Python 2
-except TypeError as e:
- # Python 3 will fail the PyUnicode_AsUTF8String conversion resulting in a TypeError.
- # The real error is actually:
- # UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcff' in position 0: surrogates not allowed
- pass
+ try:
+ unicode_strings.instring(low_surrogate_string)
+ raise RuntimeError("Exception should have been thrown")
+ except TypeError as e:
+ # Python 3 will fail the PyUnicode_AsUTF8String conversion resulting in a TypeError.
+ # The real error is actually:
+ # UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcff' in position 0: surrogates not allowed
+ pass