Surprising difference between StringIO.StringIO and io.StringIO
Serhiy Storchaka
storchaka at gmail.com
Fri May 31 05:39:41 EDT 2013
30.05.13 23:46, Skip Montanaro написав(ла):
> Am I missing something about how io.StringIO works? I thought it was
> a more-or-less drop-in replacement for StringIO.StringIO.
io.StringIO was backported from Python 3. It is a text (unicode) stream.
cStringIO.StringIO is a binary stream and StringIO.StringIO can be used
as binary or unicode stream depending on arguments. Use io.BaseIO as a
replacement for StringIO.StringIO/cStringIO.StringIO if you need a
binary stream.
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