New submission from Thomas Guettler: I think a warning at the top of StringIO docs is needed. And it should link to io.BytesIO. Maybe even deprecate StringIO and cStringIO in Python2? StringIO docs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stringio.html io.BytesIO docs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/io.html#io.BytesIO I would like to see this at the top of StringIO: {{{ Please use io.BytesIO and io.StringIO since this module is not supported in Python3 }} ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 263917 nosy: docs@python, guettli priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26817> _______________________________________