commit 22d9ee7e177bb0fcb514e898daaec98907ebde0c
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sat Dec 28 10:33:58 2013 -0600
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sat Dec 28 10:33:58 2013 -0600
tree 054e2d5107f7c9a230c723ac130e32b5e1ed0602
parent 63cc99d9a6cf4751bd75b6bc32416fdb3a98440b

complain if the codec doesn't return unicode

Lib/test/bad_coding3.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/bad_coding3.py b/Lib/test/bad_coding3.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77836d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/test/bad_coding3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# coding: string-escape
+\x70\x72\x69\x6e\x74\x20\x32\x2b\x32\x0a

Lib/test/test_pep263.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pep263.py b/Lib/test/test_pep263.py
index 4b60624..a3abc3c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pep263.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pep263.py
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@
         with self.assertRaisesRegexp(SyntaxError, 'BOM'):
             compile('\xef\xbb\xbf# -*- coding: fake -*-\n', 'dummy', 'exec')
 
+    def test_non_unicode_codec(self):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(SyntaxError,
+                                     'codec did not return a unicode'):
+            from test import bad_coding3
+
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(PEP263Test)