cStringIO module broken by design?

[Chris Liechti]

Carsten Gaebler <clpy at snakefarm.org> wrote in news:3C6FEBED.40704
@snakefarm.org:
> It seems like the cStringIO module doesn't provide a write() method 
> for StringIO objects that were initialized with a string:
...
> Why is that? I find it quite annoying.

i wouldn't call that broken. StringIO just exposes read-only and 
write-only files.

if there were read/write files they would also need to support seek 
adn truncate etc. but yes it could be practical for some cases... (PEP 
someone?)

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>