Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
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 Tests
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+- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
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 - Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
 
 - Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.