file objects choices?

[Lexy Zhitenev]

"e y suzuki" <suzuki-python at pixar.com> wrote in message:
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>
> are there any existing python file i/o types that can be represented
> by file objects other than:
>     -direct files (regular, directories) specified for the open function
>     -stdin, stdout, stderr streams via sys module
>     -input from piped commands of output from program executed by os/
>         another program

I also widely use StringIO - represent strings as file-like objects. It is
useful to unzip files just downloaded. I mean, when I download a relatively
short zip file, I place its contents in a StringIO object and feed it to zip
module to extract the real contents.

Lexy.