use get_item_tensor_string for string with rank 0

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tensorflow/contrib/autograph/operators/slices_test.py b/tensorflow/contrib/autograph/operators/slices_test.py
index 9c0b2c77a1..5300428462 100644
--- a/tensorflow/contrib/autograph/operators/slices_test.py
+++ b/tensorflow/contrib/autograph/operators/slices_test.py
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ class SlicesTest(test.TestCase):
     with self.test_session() as sess:
       self.assertEqual(sess.run(t), b"b")
 
+    initial_list_str = constant_op.constant(["abcd", "bcde"])
+    t = slices.get_item(initial_list_str, 1, slices.GetItemOpts(element_dtype=initial_str.dtype))
+
+    with self.test_session() as sess:
+      self.assertEqual(sess.run(t), b"bcde")
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   test.main()