[Python-Dev] Possible bug in codecs readline? It breaks lines apart.

[Simon Percivall]

On 2005-01-09, at 04.11, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Hello
> using current cvs Python on Linux, I observe this weird
> behavior of the readline() method on file-like objects
> returned from the codecs module:
>
> [...]
>
> See how it breaks certain lines in half?
> It only happens when a certain encoding is used, so regular
> file objects behave as expected. Also, readlines() works fine.
>
> Python 2.3.4 and Python 2.4 do not have this problem.
>
> Am I missing something or is this a bug? Thanks!

It looks like the readline method broke at revision 1.36 of codecs.py,
when it was modified, yes.

//Simon