From 17b490d7064ac18e18e6a141f7b7319feb08c08d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:19:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix test_posix (regression introduced by r80885)

---
 Lib/test/test_posix.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index fa1abe3f154..cbc786cdc0f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -299,9 +299,13 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase):
                 posix.lchflags(support.TESTFN, st.st_flags)
 
     def test_environ(self):
+        if os.name == "nt":
+            item_type = str
+        else:
+            item_type = bytes
         for k, v in posix.environ.items():
-            self.assertEqual(type(k), str)
-            self.assertEqual(type(v), str)
+            self.assertEqual(type(k), item_type)
+            self.assertEqual(type(v), item_type)
 
     def test_getcwd_long_pathnames(self):
         if hasattr(posix, 'getcwd'):