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  r83030 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-07-21 18:41:31 +0200 (mer., 21 juil. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #5395: check that array.fromfile() re-raises an IOError instead of replacing it
  with EOFError.
  (this is only an added test, but 2.x will get a fix too)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_array.py b/Lib/test/test_array.py
index 6a573e1..a4aeccf 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py
@@ -188,6 +188,17 @@
                 f.close()
             test_support.unlink(test_support.TESTFN)
 
+    def test_fromfile_ioerror(self):
+        # Issue #5395: Check if fromfile raises a proper IOError
+        # instead of EOFError.
+        a = array.array(self.typecode)
+        f = open(test_support.TESTFN, 'wb')
+        try:
+            self.assertRaises(IOError, a.fromfile, f, len(self.example))
+        finally:
+            f.close()
+            test_support.unlink(test_support.TESTFN)
+
     def test_filewrite(self):
         a = array.array(self.typecode, 2*self.example)
         f = open(test_support.TESTFN, 'wb')