1 files changed, 0 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index e008281..93eed03 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -496,44 +496,6 @@ 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):
-        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_sys_flags(self):
         self.assertTrue(sys.flags)
         attrs = ("debug", "division_warning",