diff --git a/tests/basics/tests/slice-bstr1.py b/tests/basics/tests/slice-bstr1.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 74dbc20617..0000000000
--- a/tests/basics/tests/slice-bstr1.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-print(b"123"[0:1])
-
-print(b"123"[0:2])
-
-print(b"123"[:1])
-
-print(b"123"[1:])
-
-# Idiom for copying sequence
-print(b"123"[:])
-
-print(b"123"[:-1])
-
-# Weird cases
-print(b"123"[0:0])
-print(b"123"[1:0])
-print(b"123"[1:1])
-print(b"123"[-1:-1])
-print(b"123"[-3:])
-print(b"123"[-3:3])
-print(b"123"[0:])
-print(b"123"[:0])
-print(b"123"[:-3])
-print(b"123"[:-4])
-# Range check testing, don't segfault, please ;-)
-print(b"123"[:1000000])
-print(b"123"[1000000:])
-print(b"123"[:-1000000])
-print(b"123"[-1000000:])
-# No IndexError!
-print(b""[1:1])
-print(b""[-1:-1])
diff --git a/tests/basics/tests/string-slice.py b/tests/basics/tests/string-slice.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7538ae5700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/basics/tests/string-slice.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+print("123"[0:1])
+
+print("123"[0:2])
+
+print("123"[:1])
+
+print("123"[1:])
+
+# Idiom for copying sequence
+print("123"[:])
+
+print("123"[:-1])
+
+# Weird cases
+print("123"[0:0])
+print("123"[1:0])
+print("123"[1:1])
+print("123"[-1:-1])
+print("123"[-3:])
+print("123"[-3:3])
+print("123"[0:])
+print("123"[:0])
+print("123"[:-3])
+print("123"[:-4])
+# Range check testing, don't segfault, please ;-)
+print("123"[:1000000])
+print("123"[1000000:])
+print("123"[:-1000000])
+print("123"[-1000000:])
+# No IndexError!
+print(""[1:1])
+print(""[-1:-1])