StringIO proposal: add __iadd__

[Alex Martelli]

Scott David Daniels <scott.daniels at acm.org> wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> > It would be nice (in Py3k, when backwards compatibility can be broken)
> > to make the plain-named, "default" modules those coded in C, since
> > they're used more often, and find another convention to indicate pure
> > Python equivalents -- e.g., pickle/pypickle and StringIO/pyStringIO
> How about something like a package py for all such python-coded modules
> so you use py.StringIO (which I hope gets renamed to stringio in the
> Py3K shift).

Sounds good to me, indeed better than 'name mangling'!-)


Alex