- Replace all asserts by ValuleErrors or TypeErrors as appropriate.
- Add _checkReadable, _checkWritable methods; these check self.closed too.
- Add a test that everything exported by io.py exists, and is either
  an exception or an IOBase instance (except for the open function).
- Default buffering to 1 if isatty() (I had to tweak this to enforce
  the *default* bit -- GvR).