From: Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 00:09:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Cleaned how _BytesIO.read() returns an empty bytes object.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a5~10
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e0419dcd69cab245d30b92a7f442fd4617ca8f8;p=python

Cleaned how _BytesIO.read() returns an empty bytes object.

Thank you, Guido, for noticing!
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diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index a88b5a41fe..940c4c776c 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ class _BytesIO(BufferedIOBase):
         if n < 0:
             n = len(self._buffer)
         if len(self._buffer) <= self._pos:
-            return bytes(self._buffer[:0])
+            return b""
         newpos = min(len(self._buffer), self._pos + n)
         b = self._buffer[self._pos : newpos]
         self._pos = newpos