Surprising difference between StringIO.StringIO and io.StringIO
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Fri May 31 05:55:37 EDT 2013
Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 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
I think you mean io.BytesIO.
> replacement for StringIO.StringIO/cStringIO.StringIO if you need a
> binary stream.
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