1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
index f7e8f24..35de813 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py
@@ -108,6 +108,44 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
             command = "assert(ord('\xe9') == 0xe9)"
             assert_python_ok('-c', command)
 
+    # 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):
+        undecodable = b"\xff"
+        env = os.environ.copy()
+        # Use C locale to get ascii for the locale encoding
+        env['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
+        code = (
+            b'import locale; '
+            b'print(ascii("' + undecodable + b'"), '
+                b'locale.getpreferredencoding())')
+        p = subprocess.Popen(
+            [sys.executable, "-c", code],
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+            env=env)
+        stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+        if p.returncode == 1:
+            # _Py_char2wchar() decoded b'\xff' as '\udcff' (b'\xff' is not
+            # decodable from ASCII) and run_command() failed on
+            # PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(). This is the expected behaviour on
+            # Linux.
+            pattern = b"Unable to decode the command from the command line:"
+        elif p.returncode == 0:
+            # _Py_char2wchar() decoded b'\xff' as '\xff' even if the locale is
+            # C and the locale encoding is ASCII. It occurs on FreeBSD, Solaris
+            # and Mac OS X.
+            pattern = b"'\\xff' "
+            # The output is followed by the encoding name, an alias to ASCII.
+            # Examples: "US-ASCII" or "646" (ISO 646, on Solaris).
+        else:
+            raise AssertionError("Unknown exit code: %s, output=%a" % (p.returncode, stdout))
+        if not stdout.startswith(pattern):
+            raise AssertionError("%a doesn't start with %a" % (stdout, pattern))
+
     def test_unbuffered_output(self):
         # Test expected operation of the '-u' switch
         for stream in ('stdout', 'stderr'):