StringIO failure when reading a chunk of text without newlines

[pitrou]

BPO	5264
Nosy	@pitrou, @avassalotti, @benjaminp

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2009-03-04.21:38:57.808>
created_at = <Date 2009-02-14.22:31:40.845>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'StringIO failure when reading a chunk of text without newlines'
updated_at = <Date 2009-03-04.21:38:57.807>
user = 'https://github.com/pitrou'

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activity = <Date 2009-03-04.21:38:57.807>
actor = 'benjamin.peterson'
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closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2009-03-04.21:38:57.808>
closer = 'benjamin.peterson'
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2009-02-14.22:31:40.845>
creator = 'pitrou'
dependencies = []
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hgrepos = []
issue_num = 5264
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message_count = 2.0
messages = ['82131', '83144']
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nosy_names = ['pitrou', 'alexandre.vassalotti', 'benjamin.peterson']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue5264'
versions = ['Python 2.6', 'Python 3.0', 'Python 3.1', 'Python 2.7']

[pitrou]

>>> f = io.StringIO("a\r\n", newline=None)
>>> f.read(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/io.py", line 2007, in read
    res = self._decode_newlines(self._read(n), True)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/__svn__/Lib/io.py", line 1953, in
_decode_newlines
    return output
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'output' referenced before assignment

[benjaminp]

This is fixed by the io-c branch merge. (r70152)