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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_sys.py6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index dcd36be..ee8df4d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -495,6 +495,12 @@ class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertRaises(TypeError, sys.intern, S("abc"))
+ # On Windows, pass bytes to subprocess doesn't test how Python decodes the
+ # command line, but how subprocess does decode bytes to unicode. Python
+ # doesn't decode the command line because Windows provides directly the
+ # arguments as unicode (using wmain() instead of main()).
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'win32',
+ 'Windows has a native unicode API')
def test_undecodable_code(self):
# Raise SkipTest() if sys.executable is not encodable to ascii
test.support.workaroundIssue8611()