From e86254e2560250ce958330433488ba092ca8ffea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:31:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] In rseponse to bug# 1029, force the newline default for
 StringIO to "\n", so that even on Windows, after s.write("x\n"), s.getvalue()
 == "x\n".

---
 Lib/io.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index 375ae6e2c89..710027852b5 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@ class StringIO(TextIOWrapper):
 
     # XXX This is really slow, but fully functional
 
-    def __init__(self, initial_value="", encoding="utf-8", newline=None):
+    def __init__(self, initial_value="", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n"):
         super(StringIO, self).__init__(BytesIO(),
                                        encoding=encoding,
                                        newline=newline)