fix #679 - defer printing of partial characters at end of buffer when flushing text PyIO

src/Wrap/PyIO.jl

@@ -34,10 +34,51 @@ end
 # If obuf is non-empty, write it to the underlying stream.
 function putobuf(io::PyIO)
     if !isempty(io.obuf)
-        data = io.text ? pystr_fromUTF8(io.obuf) : pybytes(io.obuf)
-        pydel!(@py io.write(data))
-        pydel!(data)
-        empty!(io.obuf)
+        if io.text
+            # Check if there is a partial character at the end of obuf and if so then
+            # do not write it.
+            # get the last character
+            nskip = 0
+            n = length(io.obuf)
+            c = io.obuf[end]
+            if (c & 0xC0) == 0xC0
+                # 11xxxxxx => buffer ends in a multi-byte char
+                nskip = 1
+            elseif ((c & 0xC0) == 0x80) && (n > 1)
+                # 10xxxxxx => continuation char
+                # get the second to last character
+                c = io.obuf[end-1]
+                if (c & 0xE0) == 0xE0
+                    # 111xxxxx => buffer ends in a 3- or 4-byte char
+                    nskip = 2
+                elseif ((c & 0xC0) == 0x80) && (n > 2)
+                    # 10xxxxxx => continuation char
+                    # get the third to last character
+                    c = io.obuf[end-2]
+                    if (c & 0xF0) == 0xF0
+                        # 1111xxxx => buffer ends in a 4-byte char
+                        nskip = 3
+                    end
+                end
+            end
+            if nskip == 0
+                data = pystr_fromUTF8(io.obuf)
+            else
+                data = pystr_fromUTF8(view(io.obuf, 1:(n-nskip)))
+            end
+            pydel!(@py io.write(data))
+            pydel!(data)
+            if nskip == 0
+                empty!(io.obuf)
+            else
+                deleteat!(io.obuf, 1:(n-nskip))
+            end
+        else
+            data = pybytes(io.obuf)
+            pydel!(@py io.write(data))
+            pydel!(data)
+            empty!(io.obuf)
+        end
     end
     return
 end

test/Wrap.jl

@@ -270,6 +270,20 @@ end
         @test !isopen(b)
         @test !isopen(s)
     end
+    @testset "flush partial characters (issue 679)" begin
+        # In this example, "touché!" takes up 8 bytes, with 'é' taking 2. So when we
+        # make a PyIO with buflen=6, it tries to flush after 6 bytes. Previously this
+        # would try to create a string from those 6 bytes and fail with a
+        # UnicodeDecodeError because the final character is incomplete. This is now
+        # fixed by deferring printing of incomplete characters.
+        s0 = pyimport("io").StringIO()
+        s = PyIO(s0, buflen=6)
+        @test s.text
+        @test write(s, "touché!") == 8
+        flush(s)
+        s0.seek(0)
+        @test pyeq(Bool, s0.read(), "touché!")
+    end
 end
 
 @testitem "PyIterable" begin