From 31ab23f28cc7c2cc00b89cb557bde44e0a2905d2 2011-11-20 22:51:13
From: Fernando Perez <Fernando.Perez@berkeley.edu>
Date: 2011-11-20 22:51:13
Subject: [PATCH] Add failing test for #822, will be fixed next

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diff --git a/IPython/core/tests/test_interactiveshell.py b/IPython/core/tests/test_interactiveshell.py
index 743dffa..d61f6c3 100644
--- a/IPython/core/tests/test_interactiveshell.py
+++ b/IPython/core/tests/test_interactiveshell.py
@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@ class InteractiveShellTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert ip.user_ns['b'] == 12
         ip.reset()
 
+    def test_var_expand(self):
+        ip = get_ipython()
+        ip.user_ns['f'] = u'Ca\xc3\xb1o'
+        # This should not raise any exception:
+        ip.var_expand(u'echo $f')
+
+
 class TestSafeExecfileNonAsciiPath(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):