Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existant "StringIO" module

in docstrings and comments.

Lib/asynchat.py

@@ -69,12 +69,9 @@ class async_chat (asyncore.dispatcher):
         # for string terminator matching
         self.ac_in_buffer = b''
 
-        # we use a list here rather than cStringIO for a few reasons...
-        # del lst[:] is faster than sio.truncate(0)
-        # lst = [] is faster than sio.truncate(0)
-        # cStringIO will be gaining unicode support in py3k, which
-        # will negatively affect the performance of bytes compared to
-        # a ''.join() equivalent
+        # we use a list here rather than io.BytesIO for a few reasons...
+        # del lst[:] is faster than bio.truncate(0)
+        # lst = [] is faster than bio.truncate(0)
         self.incoming = []
 
         # we toss the use of the "simple producer" and replace it with

Lib/gzip.py

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase):
         non-trivial value.
 
         The new class instance is based on fileobj, which can be a regular
-        file, a StringIO object, or any other object which simulates a file.
+        file, an io.BytesIO object, or any other object which simulates a file.
         It defaults to None, in which case filename is opened to provide
         a file object.
 

Lib/tempfile.py

@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ class SpooledTemporaryFile:
 
     # The method caching trick from NamedTemporaryFile
     # won't work here, because _file may change from a
-    # _StringIO instance to a real file. So we list
+    # BytesIO/StringIO instance to a real file. So we list
     # all the methods directly.
 
     # Context management protocol

Lib/test/pickletester.py

@@ -1547,14 +1547,14 @@ class AbstractPicklerUnpicklerObjectTests(unittest.TestCase):
         pickler.dump(data)
         first_pickled = f.getvalue()
 
-        # Reset StringIO object.
+        # Reset BytesIO object.
         f.seek(0)
         f.truncate()
 
         pickler.dump(data)
         second_pickled = f.getvalue()
 
-        # Reset the Pickler and StringIO objects.
+        # Reset the Pickler and BytesIO objects.
         pickler.clear_memo()
         f.seek(0)
         f.truncate()

Lib/test/test_httplib.py

@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ class EPipeSocket(FakeSocket):
     def close(self):
         pass
 
-class NoEOFStringIO(io.BytesIO):
-    """Like StringIO, but raises AssertionError on EOF.
+class NoEOFBytesIO(io.BytesIO):
+    """Like BytesIO, but raises AssertionError on EOF.
 
     This is used below to test that http.client doesn't try to read
     more from the underlying file than it should.
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
             'Content-Length: 14432\r\n'
             '\r\n',
-            NoEOFStringIO)
+            NoEOFBytesIO)
         resp = client.HTTPResponse(sock, method="HEAD")
         resp.begin()
         if resp.read():
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
             'Content-Length: 14432\r\n'
             '\r\n',
-            NoEOFStringIO)
+            NoEOFBytesIO)
         resp = client.HTTPResponse(sock, method="HEAD")
         resp.begin()
         b = bytearray(5)

Lib/test/test_logging.py

@@ -156,12 +156,7 @@ class BaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
         the expected_values list of tuples."""
         stream = stream or self.stream
         pat = re.compile(self.expected_log_pat)
-        try:
-            stream.reset()
-            actual_lines = stream.readlines()
-        except AttributeError:
-            # StringIO.StringIO lacks a reset() method.
-            actual_lines = stream.getvalue().splitlines()
+        actual_lines = stream.getvalue().splitlines()
         self.assertEqual(len(actual_lines), len(expected_values))
         for actual, expected in zip(actual_lines, expected_values):
             match = pat.search(actual)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ Tests
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existant "StringIO" module.
+
 - Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
   error messages and comments.
 

Tools/gdb/libpython.py

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class StringTruncated(RuntimeError):
     pass
 
 class TruncatedStringIO(object):
-    '''Similar to cStringIO, but can truncate the output by raising a
+    '''Similar to io.StringIO, but can truncate the output by raising a
     StringTruncated exception'''
     def __init__(self, maxlen=None):
         self._val = ''