#2242: utf7 decoding crashes on bogus input on some Windows/MSVC versions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 24e8e77..f825353 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -532,6 +532,9 @@
self.assertEqual(unicode('+3ADYAA-', 'utf-7', 'replace'), u'\ufffd')
+ # Issue #2242: crash on some Windows/MSVC versions
+ self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, '+\xc1'.decode, 'utf-7')
+
def test_codecs_utf8(self):
self.assertEqual(u''.encode('utf-8'), '')
self.assertEqual(u'\u20ac'.encode('utf-8'), '\xe2\x82\xac')