[Python-Dev] cStringIO vs io.BytesIO

[Mikhail Korobov]

That was an impressively fast draft patch!



2014-07-17 7:28 GMT+06:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

>
> On 16 Jul 2014 20:00, <dw+python-dev at hmmz.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 03:44:23AM +0600, Mikhail Korobov wrote:
> > > I believe this problem affects tornado (
> https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/
> > > Do you know if there a workaround? Maybe there is some stdlib part
> that I'm
> > > missing, or a module on PyPI? It is not that hard to write an own
> wrapper that
> > > won't do copies (or to port [c]StringIO to 3.x), but I wonder if there
> is an
> > > existing solution or plans to fix it in Python itself - this BytesIO
> use case
> > > looks quite important.
> >
> > Regarding a fix, the problem seems mostly that the StringI/StringO
> > specializations were removed, and the new implementation is basically
> > just a StringO.
>
> Right, I don't think there's a major philosophy change here, just a
> missing optimisation that could be restored in 3.5.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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