[New-bugs-announce] [issue26817] Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO

[Thomas Guettler]

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
}}

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 263917
nosy: docs at python, guettli
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO
versions: Python 2.7

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