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r76805 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-13 13:19:07 -0600 (Sun, 13 Dec 2009) | 7 lines
accept None as the same as having passed no argument in file types #7349
This is for consistency with imitation file objects like StringIO and BytesIO.
This commit also adds a few tests, where they were lacking for concerned
methods.
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Library
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+- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
+ argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
+ the same as passing no argument.
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- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
default.