Issue #22413: Merge StringIO doc from 3.5

Modules/_io/_iomodule.h

@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ extern PyObject *_PyIncrementalNewlineDecoder_decode(
    which can be safely put aside until another search.
 
    NOTE: for performance reasons, `end` must point to a NUL character ('\0').
-   Otherwise, the function will scan further and return garbage. */
+   Otherwise, the function will scan further and return garbage.
+
+   There are three modes, in order of priority:
+   * translated: Only find \n (assume newlines already translated)
+   * universal: Use universal newlines algorithm
+   * Otherwise, the line ending is specified by readnl, a str object */
 extern Py_ssize_t _PyIO_find_line_ending(
     int translated, int universal, PyObject *readnl,
     int kind, char *start, char *end, Py_ssize_t *consumed);

Modules/_io/stringio.c

@@ -696,10 +696,8 @@ _io_StringIO___init___impl(stringio *self, PyObject *value,
     char *newline = "\n";
     Py_ssize_t value_len;
 
-    /* Parse the newline argument. This used to be done with the 'z'
-       specifier, however this allowed any object with the buffer interface to
-       be converted. Thus we have to parse it manually since we only want to
-       allow unicode objects or None. */
+    /* Parse the newline argument. We only want to allow unicode objects or
+       None. */
     if (newline_obj == Py_None) {
         newline = NULL;
     }