From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:34:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: fix default arg for read() -- should be -1
X-Git-Tag: v1.4b1~390
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7476c5088e6f459f866901219e1b5b084fb0750;p=python

fix default arg for read() -- should be -1
---

diff --git a/Lib/StringIO.py b/Lib/StringIO.py
index 90f848a4d5..12d19a1cbf 100644
--- a/Lib/StringIO.py
+++ b/Lib/StringIO.py
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ class StringIO:
 		self.pos = max(0, pos)
 	def tell(self):
 		return self.pos
-	def read(self, n = 0):
-		if n <= 0:
+	def read(self, n = -1):
+		if n < 0:
 			newpos = len(self.buf)
 		else:
 			newpos = min(self.pos+n, len(self.buf))