diff --git a/runtime-testsuite/test/org/antlr/v4/test/runtime/python2/BasePython2Test.java b/runtime-testsuite/test/org/antlr/v4/test/runtime/python2/BasePython2Test.java
index 34c60a4ce..aa0eea7e2 100644
--- a/runtime-testsuite/test/org/antlr/v4/test/runtime/python2/BasePython2Test.java
+++ b/runtime-testsuite/test/org/antlr/v4/test/runtime/python2/BasePython2Test.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public class BasePython2Test extends BasePythonTest {
 						+ "        lexer = <lexerName>(input, output)\n"
 						+ "        stream = CommonTokenStream(lexer)\n"
 						+ "        stream.fill()\n"
-						+ "        [ print(t, file=output) for t in stream.tokens ]\n"
+						+ "        [ print(unicode(t), file=output) for t in stream.tokens ]\n"
 						+ (showDFA ? "        print(lexer._interp.decisionToDFA[Lexer.DEFAULT_MODE].toLexerString(), end='', file=output)\n"
 								: "") + "\n" + "if __name__ == '__main__':\n"
 						+ "    main(sys.argv)\n" + "\n");