Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org added the comment:
Fixed in r76798.
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resolution: - fixed
status: open - closed
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Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
You specified neither version nor system.
On 3.1, Windows
from io import StringIO as s
s('a\nb\nfoo').readline(-1)
'a\n'
which, I gather, is what you describe as expected, although using -1 to
mean None is rather weird.
The 3.1 doc says
Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com added the comment:
Python 2.6, Linux.
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New submission from Jean-Paul Calderone exar...@divmod.com:
cStringIO and file both accept -1 to readline to mean the same thing as
not passing any argument at all. StringIO, on the other hand, gets
totally confused:
from StringIO import StringIO
StringIO('a\nb\nfoo').readline(-1)
