Make the module docstring a raw string, so that the backslash in

"read until end of line ('\n') or EOF" will be treated literally.
Fixes SF bug #860155.

diff --git a/Lib/StringIO.py b/Lib/StringIO.py
index 870e97eb3007ca921c7d38f9af2d8c4e24c1bf47..6422f76647cff5db08482472bf1a724256021475 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/StringIO.py
+++ b/Lib/StringIO.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""File-like objects that read from or write to a string buffer.
+r"""File-like objects that read from or write to a string buffer.
 
 This implements (nearly) all stdio methods.