dbm.gnu and dbm.ndbm accept both strings and bytes as keys and values. For the

former they are converted to bytes before being written to the DB.

Closes issue 3799. Reviewed by Skip Montanaro.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py b/Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py
index eddb9708310..0049aaac80c 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ class TestGdbm(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(self.g.keys(), [])
         self.g['a'] = 'b'
         self.g['12345678910'] = '019237410982340912840198242'
+        self.g[b'bytes'] = b'data'
         key_set = set(self.g.keys())
         self.assertEqual(key_set, set([b'a', b'12345678910']))
         self.assert_(b'a' in self.g)
+        self.assertEqual(self.g[b'bytes'], b'data')
         key = self.g.firstkey()
         while key:
             self.assert_(key in key_set)