--- a/mercurial/templater.py
+++ b/mercurial/templater.py
@@ -172,15 +172,14 @@ def age(date):
def stringify(thing):
'''turn nested template iterator into string.'''
- cs = cStringIO.StringIO()
- def walk(things):
- for t in things:
- if hasattr(t, '__iter__'):
- walk(t)
- else:
- cs.write(t)
- walk(thing)
- return cs.getvalue()
+ def flatten(thing):
+ if hasattr(thing, '__iter__'):
+ for t in thing:
+ for i in flatten(t):
+ yield i
+ else:
+ yield str(thing)
+ return "".join(flatten(thing))
para_re = None
space_re = None