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  r86159 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-11-04 21:09:08 +0900 | 2 lines

  Issue #5391: mmap.read_byte() should return unsigned value [0, 255]
  instead of signed value [-127, 128].
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mmap.py b/Lib/test/test_mmap.py
index b3869a6..b6d2ffb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mmap.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mmap.py
@@ -536,6 +536,15 @@
         m.seek(8)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, m.write, b"bar")
 
+    def test_non_ascii_byte(self):
+        for b in (129, 200, 255): # > 128
+            m = mmap.mmap(-1, 1)
+            m.write_byte(b)
+            self.assertEquals(m[0], b)
+            m.seek(0)
+            self.assertEquals(m.read_byte(), b)
+            m.close()
+
     if os.name == 'nt':
         def test_tagname(self):
             data1 = b"0123456789"
diff --git a/Modules/mmapmodule.c b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
index c39715a..0005113 100644
--- a/Modules/mmapmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/mmapmodule.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
     if (self->pos < self->size) {
         char value = self->data[self->pos];
         self->pos += 1;
-        return Py_BuildValue("b", value);
+        return Py_BuildValue("B", (unsigned char)value);
     } else {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "read byte out of range");
         return NULL;