From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:34:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Jack Jansen reported that the regression test failed on the Mac where
X-Git-Tag: v2.0~99
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4bbea05c4e0dcef4c6bb8d83231126c53b7d99d5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

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.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py b/Lib/test/test_StringIO.py
index f2d6dbf7be49..b1fca84e70d4 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()