Fixed #25720 -- Made gettext() return bytestring on Python 2 if input is bytestring.

This is consistent with the behavior of Django 1.7.x and earlier.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/i18n/tests.py b/tests/i18n/tests.py
index c01098eab1..1de7b11b81 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/tests.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/tests.py
@@ -144,6 +144,18 @@ class TranslationTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertNotEqual(s, s4)
 
     @skipUnless(six.PY2, "No more bytestring translations on PY3")
+    def test_bytestrings(self):
+        """gettext() returns a bytestring if input is bytestring."""
+
+        # Using repr() to check translated text and type
+        self.assertEqual(repr(gettext(b"Time")), repr(b"Time"))
+        self.assertEqual(repr(gettext("Time")), repr("Time"))
+
+        with translation.override('de', deactivate=True):
+            self.assertEqual(repr(gettext(b"Time")), repr(b"Zeit"))
+            self.assertEqual(repr(gettext("Time")), repr(b"Zeit"))
+
+    @skipUnless(six.PY2, "No more bytestring translations on PY3")
     def test_lazy_and_bytestrings(self):
         # On Python 2, (n)gettext_lazy should not transform a bytestring to unicode
         self.assertEqual(gettext_lazy(b"test").upper(), b"TEST")