#3426: os.path.abspath now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
index 60a043c..2315b25 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
@@ -386,6 +386,15 @@
def test_abspath(self):
self.assertTrue("foo" in posixpath.abspath("foo"))
+ # Issue 3426: check that abspath retuns unicode when the arg is unicode
+ # and str when it's str, with both ASCII and non-ASCII cwds
+ for cwd in (u'cwd', u'\xe7w\xf0'):
+ with test_support.temp_cwd(cwd):
+ for path in ('', 'foo', 'f\xf2\xf2', '/foo', 'C:\\'):
+ self.assertIsInstance(posixpath.abspath(path), str)
+ for upath in (u'', u'fuu', u'f\xf9\xf9', u'/fuu', u'U:\\'):
+ self.assertIsInstance(posixpath.abspath(upath), unicode)
+
self.assertRaises(TypeError, posixpath.abspath)
def test_realpath(self):