@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ import sys

 from ansible.compat.tests import unittest

 from ansible.module_utils.aci import aci_response_json, aci_response_xml

+from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2, PY3

+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native

 from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest

@@ -201,7 +203,7 @@ class AciRest(unittest.TestCase):

     def test_empty_response(self):

         self.maxDiffi = None

-        if sys.version_info < (3, 0):

+        if PY2:

             expected_json_result = {

                 'error_code': -1,

                 'error_text': "Unable to parse output as JSON, see 'raw' output. No JSON object could be decoded",

@@ -231,18 +233,24 @@ class AciRest(unittest.TestCase):

                 'raw': '',

             }

-        elif sys.version_info < (3, 0):

+        elif etree.LXML_VERSION < (4, 0, 0, 0):

+            error_text = to_native(u"Unable to parse output as XML, see 'raw' output. None (line 0)", errors='surrogate_or_strict')

             expected_xml_result = {

                 'error_code': -1,

-                'error_text': "Unable to parse output as XML, see 'raw' output. None (line 0)",

+                'error_text': error_text,

                 'raw': '',

             }

         else:

+            if PY3:

+                error_text = u"Unable to parse output as XML, see 'raw' output. Document is empty, line 1, column 1 (<string>, line 1)"

+            else:

+                error_text = "Unable to parse output as XML, see 'raw' output. Document is empty, line 1, column 1 (line 1)"

+

             expected_xml_result = {

-                u'error_code': -1,

-                u'error_text': u"Unable to parse output as XML, see 'raw' output. None (line 0)",

-                u'raw': u'',

+                'error_code': -1,

+                'error_text': error_text,

+                'raw': '',

             }

         xml_response = ''