Issue #3798: sys.exit(message) writes the message to sys.stderr file, instead
of the C file stderr, to use stderr encoding and error handler
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 4fb1d36..2caf09f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@
"raise SystemExit(47)"])
self.assertEqual(rc, 47)
- def check_exit_message(code, expected):
+ def check_exit_message(code, expected, env=None):
process = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", code],
- stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+ stderr=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
stdout, stderr = process.communicate()
self.assertEqual(process.returncode, 1)
self.assertTrue(stderr.startswith(expected),
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@
r'import sys; sys.exit("surrogates:\uDCFF")',
b"surrogates:\\udcff")
+ # test that the unicode message is encoded to the stderr encoding
+ # instead of the default encoding (utf8)
+ env = os.environ.copy()
+ env['PYTHONIOENCODING'] = 'latin-1'
+ check_exit_message(
+ r'import sys; sys.exit("h\xe9")',
+ b"h\xe9", env=env)
+
def test_getdefaultencoding(self):
self.assertRaises(TypeError, sys.getdefaultencoding, 42)
# can't check more than the type, as the user might have changed it