Full_Name: Dave Gudeman Version: 1.52 OS: windows 95 Submission from: dialup19ip095.tus.azstarnet.com (169.197.39.95) The following program demonstrates an inconsistency in StringIO: from StringIO import * out = StringIO() out.write(3) This causes an error message, which is inconsistent with sys.stdout.write(3), which writes out a "3".