commit 9567112eb7af9e40f2d942ec73faa42b3182bf3f
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sun Dec 13 17:34:05 2009 +0000
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Sun Dec 13 17:34:05 2009 +0000
tree e6b90b86a4eefd640f93ec6c298bbb6257239f40
parent d76e711eabd7b1d0ff96b4df2d8e7ba86be40abe

Merged revisions 76798-76799 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r76798 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 11:29:16 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  make StringIO like other file objects in that readline(-1) has no effect #7348
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  r76799 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 11:31:31 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  add NEWS note
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Lib/test/test_StringIO.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py b/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
index 58cbec0..81f81e5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
         eq(self._fp.read(10), self._line[:10])
         eq(self._fp.readline(), self._line[10:] + '\n')
         eq(len(self._fp.readlines(60)), 2)
+        self._fp.seek(0)
+        eq(self._fp.readline(-1), self._line + '\n')
 
     def test_writes(self):
         f = self.MODULE.StringIO()