From 6a31b0fa19cb5684b144a2f3e5ba1d59b4fd7913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:53:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #18829: Add tests for the csv module for invalid
 characters (delimiter, escapechar, quotechar)

---
 Lib/test/test_csv.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_csv.py b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
index f1d14b9191c..83f8cb3cb7a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_csv.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_csv.py
@@ -828,6 +828,19 @@ class TestDialectValidity(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(str(cm.exception),
                          '"lineterminator" must be a string')
 
+    def test_invalid_chars(self):
+        def create_invalid(field_name, value):
+            class mydialect(csv.Dialect):
+                pass
+            setattr(mydialect, field_name, value)
+            d = mydialect()
+
+        for field_name in ("delimiter", "escapechar", "quotechar"):
+            self.assertRaises(csv.Error, create_invalid, field_name, "")
+            self.assertRaises(csv.Error, create_invalid, field_name, "abc")
+            self.assertRaises(csv.Error, create_invalid, field_name, b'x')
+            self.assertRaises(csv.Error, create_invalid, field_name, 5)
+
 
 class TestSniffer(unittest.TestCase):
     sample1 = """\