diff -r 2a18f6b85da2 Lib/test/test_string.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_string.py	Sun Apr 12 18:47:56 2015 -0400
+++ b/Lib/test/test_string.py	Mon Apr 13 10:25:49 2015 -1000
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 class ModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_attrs(self):
-        string.whitespace
-        string.ascii_lowercase
-        string.ascii_uppercase
-        string.ascii_letters
-        string.digits
-        string.hexdigits
-        string.octdigits
-        string.punctuation
-        string.printable
+        self.assertEqual(string.whitespace, ' \t\n\r\x0b\x0c')
+        self.assertEqual(string.ascii_lowercase, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
+        self.assertEqual(string.ascii_uppercase, 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
+        self.assertEqual(string.ascii_letters, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
+        self.assertEqual(string.digits, '0123456789')
+        self.assertEqual(string.hexdigits, '0123456789abcdefABCDEF')
+        self.assertEqual(string.octdigits, '01234567')
+        self.assertEqual(string.punctuation, '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~')
+        self.assertEqual(string.printable, '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c')
 
     def test_capwords(self):
         self.assertEqual(string.capwords('abc def ghi'), 'Abc Def Ghi')