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diff --git a/‎scrapy/selector/unified.py
Lines changed: 3 additions & 1 deletion b/‎scrapy/selector/unified.py
Lines changed: 3 additions & 1 deletion
diff --git a/‎scrapy/tests/test_selector.py
Lines changed: 11 additions & 8 deletions b/‎scrapy/tests/test_selector.py
Lines changed: 11 additions & 8 deletions
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 """
 
 from lxml import etree
+import six
 
 from scrapy.utils.misc import extract_regex
 from scrapy.utils.trackref import object_ref
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@ def xpath(self, query):
             result = xpathev(query, namespaces=self.namespaces,
                              smart_strings=self._lxml_smart_strings)
         except etree.XPathError:
-            raise ValueError("Invalid XPath: %s" % query)
+            msg = u"Invalid XPath: %s" % query
+            raise ValueError(msg if six.PY3 else msg.encode("unicode_escape"))
 
         if type(result) is not list:
             result = [result]
 
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import re
 import warnings
 import weakref
+import six
 from twisted.trial import unittest
 from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
 from scrapy.http import TextResponse, HtmlResponse, XmlResponse
@@ -188,17 +189,19 @@ def test_selector_over_text(self):
         self.assertEqual(xs.xpath('.').extract(), [u'<root>lala</root>'])
 
     def test_invalid_xpath(self):
+        "Test invalid xpath raises ValueError with the invalid xpath"
         response = XmlResponse(url="http://example.com", body="<html></html>")
         x = self.sscls(response)
         xpath = "//test[@foo='bar]"
-        try:
-            x.xpath(xpath)
-        except ValueError as e:
-            assert xpath in str(e), "Exception message does not contain invalid xpath"
-        except Exception:
-            raise AssertionError("A invalid XPath does not raise ValueError")
-        else:
-            raise AssertionError("A invalid XPath does not raise an exception")
+        self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, re.escape(xpath), x.xpath, xpath)
+
+    def test_invalid_xpath_unicode(self):
+        "Test *Unicode* invalid xpath raises ValueError with the invalid xpath"
+        response = XmlResponse(url="http://example.com", body="<html></html>")
+        x = self.sscls(response)
+        xpath = u"//test[@foo='\u0431ar]"
+        encoded = xpath if six.PY3 else xpath.encode('unicode_escape')
+        self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, re.escape(encoded), x.xpath, xpath)
 
     def test_http_header_encoding_precedence(self):
         # u'\xa3'     = pound symbol in unicode