Issue1959

classification
Title: io.BytesIO read method returns string "bytearray(b'...')"
Type: Severity: normal
Components: Versions: 2.7a2
Milestone:
process
Status: closed Resolution: duplicate
Dependencies: Superseder: BytesIO.getvalue() includes string "bytearray()"
View: 1927
Assigned To: jeff.allen Nosy List: fwierzbicki, jeff.allen, pjac, tiagoantao
Priority: Keywords:

Created on 2012-08-15.11:25:33 by pjac, last changed 2012-08-18.06:20:44 by jeff.allen.

Messages
msg7409 (view) Author: Peter (pjac) Date: 2012-08-15.11:25:32
Desired behaviour,

$ python2.7
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 20 2012, 16:23:33) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> raw = "\x01\x02\x03\x04"
>>> from io import BytesIO
>>> raw == BytesIO(raw).read()
True
>>> raw
'\x01\x02\x03\x04'
>>> type(raw)
<type 'str'>
>>> quit()

Broken behaviour under Jython 2.7a2 (on Mac OS X),

$ ~/jython2.7a2/jython
Jython 2.7a2 (default:9c148a201233, May 24 2012, 15:49:00) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Apple Inc.)] on java1.6.0_33
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> raw = "\x01\x02\x03\x04"
>>> from io import BytesIO
>>> raw == BytesIO(raw).read()
False
>>> raw
'\x01\x02\x03\x04'
>>> BytesIO(raw).read()
"bytearray(b'\\x01\\x02\\x03\\x04')"
>>> type(raw)
<type 'str'>
>>> type(BytesIO(raw).read())
<type 'str'>
>>> quit()

Notice that calling the read method of the BytesIO object is returning a string starting bytearray!

This bug was found by debugging failing Biopython unit tests:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2012-August/009870.html
msg7412 (view) Author: Jeff Allen (jeff.allen) Date: 2012-08-18.06:20:43
Duplicates fixed Issue #1927.

>dist\bin\jython
Jython 2.7.0a2+ (, Aug 1 2012, 09:01:31)
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_26
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from io import BytesIO
>>> raw = "\x01\x02\x03\x04"
>>> raw == BytesIO(raw).read()
True
>>> raw
'\x01\x02\x03\x04'
>>> type(raw)
<type 'str'>
>>> quit()

It stemmed from confusion (mine) over str() and repr() in bytearray. Thanks for testing!
History
Date User Action Args
2012-08-18 06:20:44jeff.allensetstatus: open -> closed
superseder: BytesIO.getvalue() includes string "bytearray()"
messages: + msg7412
assignee: jeff.allen
nosy: + jeff.allen, fwierzbicki
resolution: duplicate
2012-08-15 15:51:53tiagoantaosetnosy: + tiagoantao
2012-08-15 11:25:33pjaccreate