From b2b120d0adbb9522509e366c37b7f8c983858f54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:25:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid generating another StringIO instance in
 StringInputOutput.get_stdout().

---
 libbe/command/base.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libbe/command/base.py b/libbe/command/base.py
index 4e1e41f..54de8c2 100644
--- a/libbe/command/base.py
+++ b/libbe/command/base.py
@@ -483,8 +483,7 @@ class StringInputOutput (InputOutput):
 
     def get_stdout(self):
         ret = self.stdout.getvalue()
-        self.stdout = StringIO.StringIO() # clear stdout for next read
-        self.stdin.encoding = 'utf-8'
+        self.stdout.truncate(size=0)
         return ret
 
 class UnconnectedStorageGetter (object):
-- 
2.26.2