Kill off softspace completely (except in formatter.py which seems to have

a different feature with the same name).
The change to test_doctest.txt reduces the doctest failures to 3.

Lib/StringIO.py

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ class StringIO:
         self.buflist = []
         self.pos = 0
         self.closed = False
-        self.softspace = 0
 
     def __iter__(self):
         return self

Lib/bsddb/dbrecio.py

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ class DBRecIO:
         self.len = None
         self.pos = 0
         self.closed = 0
-        self.softspace = 0
 
     def close(self):
         if not self.closed:

Lib/code.py

@@ -12,19 +12,6 @@ from codeop import CommandCompiler, compile_command
 __all__ = ["InteractiveInterpreter", "InteractiveConsole", "interact",
            "compile_command"]
 
-def softspace(file, newvalue):
-    oldvalue = 0
-    try:
-        oldvalue = file.softspace
-    except AttributeError:
-        pass
-    try:
-        file.softspace = newvalue
-    except (AttributeError, TypeError):
-        # "attribute-less object" or "read-only attributes"
-        pass
-    return oldvalue
-
 class InteractiveInterpreter:
     """Base class for InteractiveConsole.
 
@@ -105,9 +92,6 @@ class InteractiveInterpreter:
             raise
         except:
             self.showtraceback()
-        else:
-            if softspace(sys.stdout, 0):
-                print()
 
     def showsyntaxerror(self, filename=None):
         """Display the syntax error that just occurred.

Lib/doctest.py

@@ -240,16 +240,10 @@ class _SpoofOut(StringIO):
         # that a trailing newline is missing.
         if result and not result.endswith("\n"):
             result += "\n"
-        # Prevent softspace from screwing up the next test case, in
-        # case they used print with a trailing comma in an example.
-        if hasattr(self, "softspace"):
-            del self.softspace
         return result
 
-    def truncate(self,   size=None):
+    def truncate(self, size=None):
         StringIO.truncate(self, size)
-        if hasattr(self, "softspace"):
-            del self.softspace
 
 # Worst-case linear-time ellipsis matching.
 def _ellipsis_match(want, got):

Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py

@@ -1223,7 +1223,6 @@ class PyShell(OutputWindow):
             self.text.insert("end-1c", "\n")
         self.text.mark_set("iomark", "end-1c")
         self.set_line_and_column()
-        sys.stdout.softspace = 0
 
     def write(self, s, tags=()):
         try:
@@ -1242,7 +1241,6 @@ class PseudoFile(object):
     def __init__(self, shell, tags, encoding=None):
         self.shell = shell
         self.tags = tags
-        self.softspace = 0
         self.encoding = encoding
 
     def write(self, s):

Lib/idlelib/run.py

@@ -190,12 +190,7 @@ def cleanup_traceback(tb, exclude):
         tb[i] = fn, ln, nm, line
 
 def flush_stdout():
-    try:
-        if sys.stdout.softspace:
-            sys.stdout.softspace = 0
-            sys.stdout.write("\n")
-    except (AttributeError, EOFError):
-        pass
+    """XXX How to do this now?"""
 
 def exit():
     """Exit subprocess, possibly after first deleting sys.exitfunc

Lib/socket.py

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ class _fileobject(object):
     default_bufsize = 8192
     name = "<socket>"
 
-    __slots__ = ["mode", "bufsize", "softspace",
+    __slots__ = ["mode", "bufsize",
                  # "closed" is a property, see below
                  "_sock", "_rbufsize", "_wbufsize", "_rbuf", "_wbuf",
                  "_close"]
@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ class _fileobject(object):
         if bufsize < 0:
             bufsize = self.default_bufsize
         self.bufsize = bufsize
-        self.softspace = False
         if bufsize == 0:
             self._rbufsize = 1
         elif bufsize == 1:

Lib/test/test_doctest.txt

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ already:
 We can make this fail by disabling the blank-line feature.
 
   >>> if 1:
-  ...    print 'a'
-  ...    print
-  ...    print 'b'
+  ...    print('a')
+  ...    print()
+  ...    print('b')
   a
   <BLANKLINE>
   b

Lib/test/test_file.py

@@ -30,14 +30,10 @@ class AutoFileTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def testAttributes(self):
         # verify expected attributes exist
         f = self.f
-        softspace = f.softspace
         f.name     # merely shouldn't blow up
         f.mode     # ditto
         f.closed   # ditto
 
-        # verify softspace is writable
-        f.softspace = softspace    # merely shouldn't blow up
-
         # verify the others aren't
         for attr in 'name', 'mode', 'closed':
             self.assertRaises((AttributeError, TypeError), setattr, f, attr, 'oops')

Lib/test/test_inspect.py

@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ class TestPredicates(IsTestBase):
         self.istest(inspect.ismodule, 'mod')
         self.istest(inspect.istraceback, 'tb')
         self.istest(inspect.isdatadescriptor, '__builtin__.file.closed')
-        self.istest(inspect.isdatadescriptor, '__builtin__.file.softspace')
         if hasattr(types, 'GetSetDescriptorType'):
             self.istest(inspect.isgetsetdescriptor,
                         'type(tb.tb_frame).f_locals')

Lib/test/test_softspace.py

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-from test import test_support
-import StringIO
-
-# SF bug 480215:  softspace confused in nested print
-f = StringIO.StringIO()
-class C:
-    def __str__(self):
-        print('a', file=f)
-        return 'b'
-
-print(C(), 'c ', 'd\t', 'e', file=f)
-print('f', 'g', file=f)
-# In 2.2 & earlier, this printed ' a\nbc  d\te\nf g\n'
-test_support.vereq(f.getvalue(), 'a\nb c  d\te\nf g\n')