astropy/astropy — pull request #2648 by lpsinger (2014-06-20 23:44:06+00:00)
Title: In ascii.read(), recognize list containing a newline

The `BaseInputter` class tries to detect whether the input is a file
object, filename, or iterable. However it can be fooled into thinking
that the input is a filename if it is a list of strings, one of which is
a newline.