Index: Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py =================================================================== --- Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py (revision 85974) +++ Lib/test/test_unicodedata.py (working copy) @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ error = "SyntaxError: (unicode error) \\N escapes not supported " \ "(can't load unicodedata module)" self.assertIn(error, popen.stderr.read().decode("ascii")) + popen.stderr.close() def test_decimal_numeric_consistent(self): # Test that decimal and numeric are consistent,