From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:08:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: stringio doesn't have an encoding
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a2~244
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b487e632826a45bb81925d1577856637c3fcafa0;p=python

stringio doesn't have an encoding
---

diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index 771d4ce581..5a7d2cac12 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -1834,3 +1834,7 @@ class StringIO(TextIOWrapper):
         # TextIOWrapper tells the encoding in its repr. In StringIO,
         # that's a implementation detail.
         return object.__repr__(self)
+
+    @property
+    def encoding(self):
+        return None
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
index b3fc0422d7..ad04613daf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ class PyStringIOTest(MemoryTestMixin, MemorySeekTestMixin, unittest.TestCase):
 
         # These are just dummy values but we nevertheless check them for fear
         # of unexpected breakage.
-        self.assertEqual(memio.encoding, "utf-8")
+        self.assertTrue(memio.encoding is None)
         self.assertEqual(memio.errors, "strict")
         self.assertEqual(memio.line_buffering, False)
 
diff --git a/Modules/_stringio.c b/Modules/_stringio.c
index a88fcb747b..d75a604a1f 100644
--- a/Modules/_stringio.c
+++ b/Modules/_stringio.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ stringio_encoding(StringIOObject *self, void *context)
 {
     CHECK_INITIALIZED(self);
     CHECK_CLOSED(self);
-    return PyUnicode_FromString("utf-8");
+    Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
 static PyObject *