[Python-ideas] String-like methods on StringIO objects?

[Nick Coghlan]

>From the "idle speculation" files (inspired by the recent thread on
python-dev): has anyone ever experimented with offering string methods like
find() on StringIO objects?

I don't work in any sufficiently memory constrained environments these days
that that style of API would be worth the hassle relative to a normal
string, it just struck me as a potentially interesting approach to the
notion of a string manipulation type that didn't generally copy data around
and could use different code point sizes internally for different parts of
the text data.

Cheers,
Nick.
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