I thought I had already fixed this error in the test.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index e64e781..62cd163 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@
def test_basic(self):
f = StringIO.StringIO('\xed\x95\x9c\n\xea\xb8\x80')
ef = codecs.EncodedFile(f, 'utf-16-le', 'utf-8')
- self.assertEquals(ef.read(), '\xff\xfe\\\xd5\n\x00\x00\xae')
+ self.assertEquals(ef.read(), '\\\xd5\n\x00\x00\xae')
f = StringIO.StringIO()
ef = codecs.EncodedFile(f, 'utf-8', 'latin1')