Patch 1280, by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Make PyString's indexing and iteration return integers.
(I changed a few of Alexandre's decisions -- GvR.)
diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index cb8900d..9da062e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@
         a = self.type2test('DNSSEC')
         b = self.type2test('')
         for c in a:
+            # Special case for the str8, since indexing returns a integer
+            # XXX Maybe it would be a good idea to seperate str8's tests...
+            if self.type2test == str8:
+                c = chr(c)
             b += c
             hash(b)
         self.assertEqual(hash(a), hash(b))