[Bug #1164912] Ensure Datetime wrapper class .value attribute is an 8-bit string, not a Unicode string
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index ed4c6d1..0ef91dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@
(newdt,), m = xmlrpclib.loads(s, use_datetime=0)
self.assertEquals(newdt, xmlrpclib.DateTime('%sT11:41:23'%today))
+ def test_bug_1164912 (self):
+ d = xmlrpclib.DateTime()
+ ((new_d,), dummy) = xmlrpclib.loads(xmlrpclib.dumps((d,),
+ methodresponse=True))
+ self.assert_(isinstance(new_d.value, str))
+
+ # Check that the output of dumps() is still an 8-bit string
+ s = xmlrpclib.dumps((new_d,), methodresponse=True)
+ self.assert_(isinstance(s, str))
+
def test_dump_big_long(self):
self.assertRaises(OverflowError, xmlrpclib.dumps, (2L**99,))