# HG changeset patch
# User timeless <timeless@mozdev.org>
# Date 2016-04-06 20:31:31
# Node ID 68a946e8318894bd95d0a5b3726006bb61fda6ad
# Parent  2fac032c1269c5c59f0042a138d887fc8ea31806

pycompat: add util.stringio to handle py3 divergence

util.stringio = cStringIO.StringIO / io.StringIO

diff --git a/mercurial/pycompat.py b/mercurial/pycompat.py
--- a/mercurial/pycompat.py
+++ b/mercurial/pycompat.py
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ This contains aliases to hide python ver
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 try:
+    import cStringIO as io
+    stringio = io.StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    import io
+    stringio = io.StringIO
+
+try:
     import Queue as _queue
     _queue.Queue
 except ImportError:
diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ from . import (
 for attr in (
     'empty',
     'queue',
+    'stringio',
 ):
     globals()[attr] = getattr(pycompat, attr)