Issue #6195: fix doctest to no longer try to read 'source' data from

binary files.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
index 9a128fb..8dcc8a4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_doctest.py
@@ -2288,6 +2288,17 @@ using the optional keyword argument `encoding`:
     >>> doctest.master = None  # Reset master.
 """
 
+def test_testmod(): r"""
+Tests for the testmod function.  More might be useful, but for now we're just
+testing the case raised by Issue 6195, where trying to doctest a C module would
+fail with a UnicodeDecodeError because doctest tried to read the "source" lines
+out of the binary module.
+
+    >>> import unicodedata
+    >>> doctest.testmod(unicodedata)
+    TestResults(failed=0, attempted=0)
+"""
+
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