commit 93d36a5bcec8e55026b9a749c8310b1ce490d15e
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Fri Jul 16 06:55:26 2021 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Fri Jul 16 15:55:26 2021 +0200
tree 9985de71d1ecb0f54ab69246918ee54a00831b9c
parent 80844d1ebc03e1cf3ffdeb47751522499e90b0bc

bpo-44647: Add a permanent Unicode-valued env var to regrtest  (GH-27187) (#27191)

(cherry picked from commit 7915c96ffd7ddc5cb6d54015ee4c31255a416892)

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>

Lib/test/test_regrtest.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py b/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
index 054776c..75fa6f2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_regrtest.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from test import libregrtest
 from test import support
 from test.support import os_helper
-from test.libregrtest import utils
+from test.libregrtest import utils, setup
 
 
 Py_DEBUG = hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount')
@@ -1298,6 +1298,14 @@ def test_threading_excepthook(self):
         self.assertIn("Warning -- Uncaught thread exception", output)
         self.assertIn("Exception: bug in thread", output)
 
+    def test_unicode_guard_env(self):
+        guard = os.environ.get(setup.UNICODE_GUARD_ENV)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(guard, f"{setup.UNICODE_GUARD_ENV} not set")
+        if guard != "\N{SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES}":
+            # Skip to signify that the env var value was changed by the user;
+            # possibly to something ASCII to work around Unicode issues.
+            self.skipTest("Modified guard")
+
     def test_cleanup(self):
         dirname = os.path.join(self.tmptestdir, "test_python_123")
         os.mkdir(dirname)