Use compile() instead of eval().
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 9554eef..0b7bbf1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -856,12 +856,10 @@
# verify that the UTF-8 size is accounted for
s = chr(0x4000) # 4 bytes canonical representation
check(s, size(compactfields) + 4)
- try:
- # eval() will trigger the generation of the UTF-8 representation
- # as a side effect
- eval(s)
- except NameError:
- check(s, size(compactfields) + 4 + 4)
+ # compile() will trigger the generation of the UTF-8
+ # representation as a side effect
+ compile(s, "<stdin>", "eval")
+ check(s, size(compactfields) + 4 + 4)
# TODO: add check that forces the presence of wchar_t representation
# TODO: add check that forces layout of unicodefields
# weakref