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  r78420 | eric.smith | 2010-02-24 10:42:29 -0500 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) | 9 lines

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    r78418 | eric.smith | 2010-02-24 09:15:36 -0500 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) | 1 line

    Issue #7309: Unchecked pointer access when converting UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index 404b5d1..6aa8102 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -568,6 +568,42 @@
             pass
         self.assertEquals(e, (None, None, None))
 
+    def testUnicodeChangeAttributes(self):
+        # See issue 7309. This was a crasher.
+
+        u = UnicodeEncodeError('baz', 'xxxxx', 1, 5, 'foo')
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: foo")
+        u.end = 2
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't encode character '\\x78' in position 1: foo")
+        u.end = 5
+        u.reason = 0x345345345345345345
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: 965230951443685724997")
+        u.encoding = 4000
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'4000' codec can't encode characters in position 1-4: 965230951443685724997")
+        u.start = 1000
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'4000' codec can't encode characters in position 1000-4: 965230951443685724997")
+
+        u = UnicodeDecodeError('baz', b'xxxxx', 1, 5, 'foo')
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-4: foo")
+        u.end = 2
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't decode byte 0x78 in position 1: foo")
+        u.end = 5
+        u.reason = 0x345345345345345345
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'baz' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-4: 965230951443685724997")
+        u.encoding = 4000
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'4000' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-4: 965230951443685724997")
+        u.start = 1000
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "'4000' codec can't decode bytes in position 1000-4: 965230951443685724997")
+
+        u = UnicodeTranslateError('xxxx', 1, 5, 'foo')
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "can't translate characters in position 1-4: foo")
+        u.end = 2
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "can't translate character '\\x78' in position 1: foo")
+        u.end = 5
+        u.reason = 0x345345345345345345
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "can't translate characters in position 1-4: 965230951443685724997")
+        u.start = 1000
+        self.assertEqual(str(u), "can't translate characters in position 1000-4: 965230951443685724997")
 
     def test_badisinstance(self):
         # Bug #2542: if issubclass(e, MyException) raises an exception,