diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index f668d31..4bcd121 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -628,3 +628,7 @@
             data = 'x\x9c\xcbH\xcd\xc9\xc9W(\xcf/\xcaI\x01\x00\x1a\x0b\x04]'
             self.checkequal(data, 'hello world', 'encode', 'zlib')
             self.checkequal('hello world', data, 'decode', 'zlib')
+
+        self.checkraises(TypeError, 'xyz', 'decode', 42)
+        self.checkraises(TypeError, 'xyz', 'encode', 42)
+