diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index caea909..dd01b93 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@
         self.assertEqual(b.pop(-2), ord('r'))
         self.assertRaises(IndexError, lambda: b.pop(10))
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, lambda: bytearray().pop())
+        # test for issue #6846
+        self.assertEqual(bytearray(b'\xff').pop(), 0xff)
 
     def test_nosort(self):
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, lambda: bytearray().sort())