[New-bugs-announce] [issue7165] xmlrpc.server assumes sys.stdout will have a buffer attribute

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

The xmlrpc tests were changed to use a StringIO object instead of a
temporary file (this change reflects the corresponding change made on
the 2.x trunk).

The tests then started failing, since xmlrpc.server assumes sys.stdout
will provide the buffer attribute, which is not a valid assumption. From
the io.TestIOBase documentation:

buffer
    The underlying binary buffer (a BufferedIOBase instance) that
TextIOBase deals with. This is not part of the TextIOBase API and may
not exist on some implementations.

Assuming this attribute exists is a bug in xmlrpc.server that should be
fixed.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 94212
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: xmlrpc.server assumes sys.stdout will have a buffer attribute
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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