With 3.2 on winxp, that is what I get with StringIO, text file, and bytes file (the first two with b's removed). I would expect the same on any system. If you get anything different, I would consider it a bug
Thanks Terry, you're entirely right there; I trimmed down my test case, asked for confirmation and have reported it as http://bugs.python.org/issue12062. Noted here in case anyone else trips over it.
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