commit ec8f0df2296cfb88cd932eeb053edaa316600725
author Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> Thu Feb 24 20:34:38 2011 +0000
committer Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> Thu Feb 24 20:34:38 2011 +0000
tree 94137b33f9b53ce5a2034844d8aa6d26c8a48905
parent f4977d2f503fb8c2dd2376936683653f0d94c3e7

Merged revisions 88546 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r88546 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-02-24 14:40:09 -0500 (Thu, 24 Feb 2011) | 3 lines

  Issue #11286: Fixed unpickling of empty 2.x strings.
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Lib/test/pickletester.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/pickletester.py b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
index 3ae7def..a843486 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pickletester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
@@ -1093,6 +1093,10 @@
             self.assertEqual(len(loaded), len(data))
             self.assertEqual(loaded, data)
 
+    def test_empty_bytestring(self):
+        # issue 11286
+        empty = self.loads(b'\x80\x03U\x00q\x00.', encoding='koi8-r')
+        self.assertEqual(empty, '')
 
 # Test classes for reduce_ex