SocketServer initializing outbound UDP

[ftobin]

BPO	543318
Nosy	@gvanrossum

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[ftobin]

In SocketServer.DatagramRequestHandler.setup, it calls:
self.wfile = StringIO.StringIO(self.packet)

It doesn't make sense to initialize wfile to anything;
one probably wantsto start off with a 'clean' packet.
Should this not rather be:
self.wfile = StringIO.StringIO()

[gvanrossum]

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You are so right. Fixed in CVS, marked as bugfix candidate.