[New-bugs-announce] [issue12215] TextIOWrapper: issues with interlaced read-write

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:

The following code fails on an assertion error (Python exception for _pyio, C assertion for io):

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with io.BytesIO(b'abcd') as raw:
    with _pyio.TextIOWrapper(raw, encoding='ascii') as f:
        f.read(1)
        f.write('2')
        f.tell()
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I found this assertion while testing interlaced read-write on TextIOWrapper:
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with io.BytesIO(b'abcd') as raw:
    with _pyio.TextIOWrapper(raw, encoding='ascii') as f:
        f.write("1")
        # read() must call writer.flush()
        assertEqual(f.read(1), 'b')
        # write() must rewind the raw stream
        f.write('2')
        assertEqual(f.read(), 'd')
        f.flush()
        assertEqual(raw.getvalue(), b'1b2d')

with io.BytesIO(b'abc') as raw:
    with _pyio.TextIOWrapper(raw, encoding='ascii') as f:
        self.assertEqual(f.read(1), b'a')
        # write() must undo reader readahead
        f.write(b"2")
        assertEqual(f.read(1), b'c')
        f.flush()
        assertEqual(raw.getvalue(), b'a2c')
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These tests fails on "read, write, read" path: write() breaks TextIOWrapper internal state if a read() occured just before. Note that _pyio.TextIOWrapper.write() contains the following comment...

# XXX What if we were just reading?

See also the issue #12213 for BufferedRandom and BufferedRWPair.

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components: IO
messages: 137260
nosy: haypo, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: TextIOWrapper: issues with interlaced read-write
versions: Python 3.3

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