diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 0e12b74d6..0004bd7dd 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -374,14 +374,14 @@ def test_invalid_xml_escape():
 
 
     for i in invalid:
-        got = bin_xml_escape(unichr(i))
+        got = bin_xml_escape(unichr(i)).uniobj
         if i <= 0xFF:
             expected = '#x%02X' % i
         else:
             expected = '#x%04X' % i
         assert got == expected
     for i in valid:
-        assert chr(i) == bin_xml_escape(unichr(i))
+        assert chr(i) == bin_xml_escape(unichr(i)).uniobj
 
 def test_logxml_path_expansion():
     from _pytest.junitxml import LogXML