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Sorry to comment on a closed report, but perhaps this fix
should not be limited only to cases where size is None. 
Today, I ran into a spurious syntax error when trying to
import pythondoc (from
http://effbot.org/downloads/pythondoc-2.1b3-20050325.zip). 
It turned out a \r was ending up in what looked to the
parser like the middle of a line, presumably because a \n
was dropped.  Anyway, I applied the referenced patch to
2.4.1, except I left out the "size is None" condition, since
I knew the tokenizer passes in a size param.  With that
change pythondoc import successfully.  (Also, I just ran the
test suite and nothing broke.)

Since the size parameter is already documented as being
passed to StreamReader.read (in codecs.py -- the HTML
documentation needs to be updated), and since
StreamReader.read says size is an approximate maximum,
perhaps it's OK to read one extra byte.