[Python-Dev] RFC: Add a new builtin strarray type to Python?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > StringIO is an in-memory file-like object, like in 2.x (where it lived
 > in the "cStringIO" module). I don't think it's a novel thing.

The problem is the name "StringIO".  Something like "StringStream" or
"StringBuffer" might be more discoverable.  I personally didn't have
trouble deducing that "StringIO" means "treat a string like a file",
but it's not immediately obvious what the module is for (unless you
already know).