On Mar 13, 2012 9:34 AM, "Hyrum K Wright" <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 00:55, <hwri...@apache.org> wrote: > >>... > >> +++ subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py Tue Mar 13 04:55:26 2012 > >> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import optparse > >> import xml > >> import urllib > >> import logging > >> +import cStringIO as StringIO > > > > No need to rename this module, as is typical with back-compat importing. > > This isn't backward compat, it's an alternative implementation that is > a drop-in replacement for the StringIO module, hence the desire to > alias it.
Dude. I *know* what it is. My point is that it is silly to rename it when it has been a standard module for *years*. Nobody really uses StringIO any more. It is all cStringIO, possibly renamed thru import logic that is used for back-compat. The rename is superfluous gunk nowadays. -g
