[Python-ideas] collections.abc.Stream

[Michael Selik]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, 2:01 AM Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to check in Python whether an object is file-like? (Like
> `open`, `StringIO`, etc.) I would think that an abc in collections.abc will
> be the standard solution, like we have for so many other data types, but I
> can't find one.
>

File-like means different things in different places. Some functions want
the read method, others want readline.

How about just trying to use the method and catching AttributeError?
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