Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e1356ad..0efbefa 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -666,6 +666,8 @@
Tools/Demos
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+- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
- Issue #14695: Fix missing support for starred assignments in
Tools/parser/unparse.py.
diff --git a/Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py b/Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py
index 0f5c1e2..01303db 100644
--- a/Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py
+++ b/Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
mismatch += 1
# Check decoding
for i in range(256):
- c = chr(i)
+ c = bytes([i])
try:
u1 = c.decode(encoding1)
except UnicodeError: