From fe9efc57327b6306c5b755fae8ad6729484adcd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:04:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] #9161: add test for the bug fixed by r82581.

Patch by Michael Johnson.
---
 Lib/test/test_optparse.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_optparse.py b/Lib/test/test_optparse.py
index f86ea0176ac..59f752e9371 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_optparse.py
@@ -769,6 +769,13 @@ class TestStandard(BaseTest):
         self.assertParseFail(["-test"],
                              "no such option: -e")
 
+    def test_flag_accepts_unicode(self):
+        try:
+            self.parser.add_option(u"-u", u"--unicode")
+            self.parser.parse_args()
+        except TypeError:
+            self.fail("Failed parsing flag passed to add_option() as unicode.")
+
 class TestBool(BaseTest):
     def setUp(self):
         options = [make_option("-v",