commit c92ea76f3f43e367e9bf5fd12713c3b99ffad84a
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Wed Jan 29 11:33:26 2014 +0200
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Wed Jan 29 11:33:26 2014 +0200
tree 6c37cfe6ff390163e3c588658d9090e10d7d4b93
parent 1e40295af6be0e43e62a22300cbdfb62e28f237d

Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.

Lib/_pyio.py

diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index aab60db..a9b0064 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@
     def __init__(self, initial_value="", newline="\n"):
         super(StringIO, self).__init__(BytesIO(),
                                        encoding="utf-8",
-                                       errors="strict",
+                                       errors="surrogatepass",
                                        newline=newline)
         # Issue #5645: make universal newlines semantics the same as in the
         # C version, even under Windows.