From 521c83dd80afa929816ced389d4f92a97815b978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:56:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Multifile.read():  Fix a broken conversion to string methods.

This closes SF bug #407777.
---
 Lib/multifile.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/multifile.py b/Lib/multifile.py
index 60a4303c14b..c3c468a0e67 100644
--- a/Lib/multifile.py
+++ b/Lib/multifile.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class MultiFile:
         return list
 
     def read(self): # Note: no size argument -- read until EOF only!
-        return self.readlines().join('')
+        return ''.join(self.readlines())
 
     def next(self):
         while self.readline(): pass