cStringIO module broken by design?

[Carsten Gaebler]

Hi there!

It seems like the cStringIO module doesn't provide a write() method for 
StringIO objects that were initialized with a string:

Python 2.2 (#8, Jan 11 2002, 20:10:20)
[GCC 3.0] on linux2
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 >>> import StringIO
 >>> s = StringIO.StringIO()
 >>> s.write("foobar")
 >>> s = StringIO.StringIO("foo")
 >>> s.write("bar")
 >>>
 >>> import cStringIO
 >>> s = cStringIO.StringIO()
 >>> s.write("foobar")
 >>> s = cStringIO.StringIO("foo")
 >>> s.write("bar")
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: write
 >>>

Why is that? I find it quite annoying.

cg.