def test_readlines(self):

       fn = self.root.join('samplefile')

->     contents = fn.readlines()

       assert contents == ['samplefile\n']

   def readlines(self, cr=1):

       """ read and return a list of lines from the path. if cr is False, the

   newline will be removed from the end of each line. """

       if not cr:

           content = self.read('rU')

           return content.split('\n')

       else:

->         f = self.open('rU')

           try:

               return f.readlines()

           finally:

               f.close()