commit 2e0419dcd69cab245d30b92a7f442fd4617ca8f8
author Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> Wed May 07 00:09:04 2008 +0000
committer Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> Wed May 07 00:09:04 2008 +0000
tree 3235d58d48fd8f5330043242eeb1598863eb09ef
parent 8e99760c90c33fbfa1fbf8370df4b8503322e9b8

Cleaned how _BytesIO.read() returns an empty bytes object.

Thank you, Guido, for noticing!

Lib/io.py

diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index a88b5a4..940c4c7 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@
         if n < 0:
             n = len(self._buffer)
         if len(self._buffer) <= self._pos:
-            return bytes(self._buffer[:0])
+            return b""
         newpos = min(len(self._buffer), self._pos + n)
         b = self._buffer[self._pos : newpos]
         self._pos = newpos