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authorMartin Packman <gzlist@googlemail.com>2017-06-01 01:08:02 +0100
committerJeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>2017-06-09 13:46:15 -0700
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parent17231b9a7c56bf06f1a848fc52554541a09a2eba (diff)
downloadparamiko-8c9df8ba637e222a3e9da6d365d225f9cad81f18.tar.gz
Tweak comments as suggested in review
Thanks to bitprophet and ploxiln.
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diff --git a/paramiko/file.py b/paramiko/file.py
index 35637b8e..a1bdafbe 100644
--- a/paramiko/file.py
+++ b/paramiko/file.py
@@ -392,8 +392,7 @@ class BufferedFile (ClosingContextManager):
:param data: ``str``/``bytes`` data to write
"""
if isinstance(data, text_type):
- # GZ 2017-05-25: Accepting text on a binary stream unconditionally
- # cooercing to utf-8 seems questionable, but compatibility reasons?
+ # Accept text and encode as utf-8 for compatibility only.
data = data.encode('utf-8')
if self._closed:
raise IOError('File is closed')