bpo-33361: Fix bug with seeking in StreamRecoders (GH-8278)

(cherry picked from commit a6ec1ce1ac05b1258931422e96eac215b6a05459)

Co-authored-by: Ammar Askar <ammar_askar@hotmail.com>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index 3cd78fc9f1..cfca5d38b0 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -847,6 +847,12 @@ class StreamRecoder:
         self.reader.reset()
         self.writer.reset()
 
+    def seek(self, offset, whence=0):
+        # Seeks must be propagated to both the readers and writers
+        # as they might need to reset their internal buffers.
+        self.reader.seek(offset, whence)
+        self.writer.seek(offset, whence)
+
     def __getattr__(self, name,
                     getattr=getattr):
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index a3a2f6563a..248ef6fe07 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -3318,6 +3318,31 @@ class StreamRecoderTest(unittest.TestCase):
         sr.write(text.encode('latin1'))
         self.assertEqual(bio.getvalue(), text.encode('utf-8'))
 
+    def test_seeking_read(self):
+        bio = io.BytesIO('line1\nline2\nline3\n'.encode('utf-16-le'))
+        sr = codecs.EncodedFile(bio, 'utf-8', 'utf-16-le')
+
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'line1\n')
+        sr.seek(0)
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'line1\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'line2\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'line3\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'')
+
+    def test_seeking_write(self):
+        bio = io.BytesIO('123456789\n'.encode('utf-16-le'))
+        sr = codecs.EncodedFile(bio, 'utf-8', 'utf-16-le')
+
+        # Test that seek() only resets its internal buffer when offset
+        # and whence are zero.
+        sr.seek(2)
+        sr.write(b'\nabc\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'789\n')
+        sr.seek(0)
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'1\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'abc\n')
+        self.assertEqual(sr.readline(), b'789\n')
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()