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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-10-11 21:34:53 +0000
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-10-11 21:34:53 +0000
commit44555d0ba1e4b9b9338cef18c85201ab74b806d7 (patch)
tree2265e859815106936651d81d33dda9ed336b2416 /Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
parentd646ea5507452ce48588a2198c2a70c8ec615724 (diff)
downloadcpython-44555d0ba1e4b9b9338cef18c85201ab74b806d7.tar.gz
Jack Jansen reported that the regression test failed on the Mac where
string.letters was much more than expected. Solution: explicit is better than implicit; don't rely on string.letters.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_StringIO.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_StringIO.py4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py b/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
index f2d6dbf7be..b1fca84e70 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
# Tests StringIO and cStringIO
-import string
-
def do_test(module):
- s = (string.letters+'\n')*5
+ s = ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"+'\n')*5
f = module.StringIO(s)
print f.read(10)
print f.readline()