Added bytes and b'' as aliases for str and ''
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_string.py b/Lib/test/test_string.py
index fdd431d..9b22333 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_string.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_string.py
@@ -106,8 +106,19 @@
self.assertEqual(string.capwords('ABC-DEF-GHI', '-'), 'Abc-Def-Ghi')
self.assertEqual(string.capwords('ABC-def DEF-ghi GHI'), 'Abc-def Def-ghi Ghi')
+class BytesAliasTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ def test_builtin(self):
+ self.assert_(str is bytes)
+
+ def test_syntax(self):
+ self.assertEqual(b"spam", "spam")
+ self.assertEqual(br"egg\foo", "egg\\foo")
+ self.assert_(type(b""), str)
+ self.assert_(type(br""), str)
+
def test_main():
- test_support.run_unittest(StringTest, ModuleTest)
+ test_support.run_unittest(StringTest, ModuleTest, BytesAliasTest)
if __name__ == "__main__":
test_main()