[issue9858] RawIOBase doesn't define readinto

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> +1 for a failing one. (Does the base implementation not raise?)

The base implementation doesn't exist :)

> Is it even possible to implement a real one without buffering?

FileIO does. It's the same as read(), except that you read into an existing buffer rather than allocating a new bytes object.

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