Revert the fix for #1548891, it broke backwards compatibility with arbitrary read buffers.

Fixes #1730114.

Lib/test/test_StringIO.py

@@ -121,28 +121,6 @@ class TestStringIO(TestGenericStringIO):
 class TestcStringIO(TestGenericStringIO):
     MODULE = cStringIO
 
-    def test_unicode(self):
-
-        if not test_support.have_unicode: return
-
-        # The cStringIO module converts Unicode strings to character
-        # strings when writing them to cStringIO objects.
-        # Check that this works.
-
-        f = self.MODULE.StringIO()
-        f.write(unicode(self._line[:5]))
-        s = f.getvalue()
-        self.assertEqual(s, 'abcde')
-        self.assertEqual(type(s), types.StringType)
-
-        f = self.MODULE.StringIO(unicode(self._line[:5]))
-        s = f.getvalue()
-        self.assertEqual(s, 'abcde')
-        self.assertEqual(type(s), types.StringType)
-
-        self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, self.MODULE.StringIO,
-                          unicode('\xf4', 'latin-1'))
-
 import sys
 if sys.platform.startswith('java'):
     # Jython doesn't have a buffer object, so we just do a useless