Issue #8990: array.fromstring() and array.tostring() get renamed to
frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion. Furthermore,
array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array()
constructor now accept bytearray objects. Patch by Thomas Jollans.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py
index 6d51fd5..ebaa38b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
a = array('b', b'x'*10)
self.f = self.open(TESTFN, 'rb')
n = self.f.readinto(a)
- self.assertEquals(b'12', a.tostring()[:n])
+ self.assertEquals(b'12', a.tobytes()[:n])
def testReadinto_text(self):
# verify readinto refuses text files
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
except ValueError:
self.fail("readinto() after next() with supposedly empty "
"iteration-buffer failed anyway")
- line = buf.tostring()
+ line = buf.tobytes()
if line != testline:
self.fail("readinto() after next() with empty buffer "
"failed. Got %r, expected %r" % (line, testline))