--- a/Lib/distutils/test_string.py	2011-03-30 21:10:20.000000000 -0500
+++ b/Lib/distutils/test_string.py	2011-04-03 14:30:23.635425000 -0500
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
         string.whitespace
         string.ascii_lowercase
         string.ascii_uppercase
-        string.ascii_letters
+        self.assertEqual(string.ascii_letters, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ");
         string.digits
-        string.hexdigits
+        self.assertEqual(string.hexdigits, "0123456789abcdefABCDEF")
         string.octdigits
-        string.punctuation
-        string.printable
+        string.punctuation	
+        self.assertEqual(string.printable, """0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\v\f""" );
 
     def test_capwords(self):
         self.assertEqual(string.capwords('abc def ghi'), 'Abc Def Ghi')