hack StringIO's repr, so it doesn't give an encoding

benjaminp · benjaminp · commit 9fd459a3a2ff · 2009-03-09T00:09:44.000Z
diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -1829,3 +1829,8 @@ def __init__(self, initial_value="", newline="\n"):
     def getvalue(self):
         self.flush()
         return self.buffer.getvalue().decode(self._encoding, self._errors)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        # TextIOWrapper tells the encoding in its repr. In StringIO,
+        # that's a implementation detail.
+        return object.__repr__(self)
