Use of StringIO vs cStringIO in standard modules
Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at srce.hr
Thu Jun 3 15:58:00 EDT 1999
"Michael P. Reilly" <arcege at shore.net> writes:
> There are some interface differences between calls to
> cStringIO.StringIO and StringIO.StringIO which I think makes
> StringIO more "usable" in some cases.
In the case of base64.py, it simply doesn't use those differences. In
the case of creating a "UsercStringIO" wrapper, the additional
functionality could be cheaply implemented by the wrapper. Or, the
additional stuff could simply be added to cStringIO.
> I would want to see cStringIO mimic StringIO before the two are
> merged.
Absolutely. I would not propose breaking backward compatibility.
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