[Python-Dev] test_StringIO failing on the Mac

[Tim Peters]

[Jack Jansen]
> I have one remaining problem (at least, as far as I'm aware:-) with
> 2.0c1 on the Mac: test_StringIO fails.
> 
> The reason is that the test_StringIO output file was generated on
> Unix, and hence it uses the unix form of string.letters (a-zA-Z),
> whereas the Mac version of string.letters has far more values.
> 
> As this isn't what the test is about in the first place, shall I fix
> the test?

+1 from me on making the test portable.