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diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 647875251..2985e7a4d 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ The test directory contains some unit and performance tests for Scintilla. -The tests can only be run on Windows using Python 3.x. Running on another platform -would require writing a file similar to XiteWin.py for that platform. Python 3.x is required -because its default string type is Unicode and earlier Python versions use byte strings -and the interface to the platform assumes a particular string type. +The tests can only be run on Windows using Python 2.7 or 3.x. Running on another platform +would require writing a file similar to XiteWin.py for that platform. Python 2.7+ is required +because the bytes string type and literals are available. A test application is in xite.py and this can be run to experiment: pythonw xite.py |