1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/python/python_strict_unicode_runme.py b/Examples/test-suite/python/python_strict_unicode_runme.py
index e7fae2556..79c768de1 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/python/python_strict_unicode_runme.py
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/python/python_strict_unicode_runme.py
@@ -1,8 +1,20 @@
 import python_strict_unicode
+import sys
 
 test_bytes   = b"hello \x01world\x99"
 BYTES        = b"BYTES"
-test_unicode = u"h\udce9llo w\u00f6rld"
+
+if sys.version_info[0:2] < (3, 0):
+    # Python 3.0-3.2 results in a SyntaxError when using u"" string literals, so we use a
+    # convoluted unicode string construction using unicode() and unichr().
+    # Conventional Python 2 syntax shown in comments.
+    test_unicode = unicode("h" + unichr(0xdce9) + "llo w" + unichr(0x00f6) + "rld") # u"h\udce9llo w\u00f6rld"
+    UNICODE      = unicode("UNICODE")
+    type_unicode_string = type(UNICODE)
+else:
+    test_unicode = "h\udce9llo w\u00f6rld"
+    UNICODE      = "UNICODE"
+    type_unicode_string = type(UNICODE)
 
 # Test that byte string inputs and outputs work as expected
 bdbl = python_strict_unicode.double_str(test_bytes)
@@ -20,12 +32,12 @@ if type(bout) != type(BYTES):
 udbl = python_strict_unicode.double_wstr(test_unicode)
 if udbl != test_unicode + test_unicode:
     raise RuntimeError("Failed to double wide string")
-if type(udbl) != type(u""):
+if type(udbl) != type_unicode_string:
     raise RuntimeError("Wrong type output for wide string")
 uout = python_strict_unicode.same_wstr(test_unicode)
 if uout != test_unicode:
     raise RuntimeError("Failed to copy wchar_t*")
-if type(uout) != type(u""):
+if type(uout) != type_unicode_string:
     raise RuntimeError("Wrong type output for wchar_t*")
 
 # Test that overloading is handled properly
@@ -35,9 +47,9 @@ if bovr != BYTES:
 if type(bovr) != type(BYTES):
     raise RuntimeError("Wrong type output from overload")
 uovr = python_strict_unicode.overload(test_unicode)
-if uovr != u"UNICODE":
+if uovr != UNICODE:
     raise RuntimeError("Failed to return unicode from overload")
-if type(uovr) != type(u""):
+if type(uovr) != type_unicode_string:
     raise RuntimeERror("Wrong type output from overload")
 
 # Test that bytes aren't accepted as wide strings and unicode isn't accepted as narrow strings