Frankenstring

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>jay graves wrote:
>> see StringIO or cStringIO in the standard library.

> Just as with files, iterating over them returns whole lines, which is
> unfortunately not what I want.


Then why not subclass it and alter the iteration scheme to do a read(1)
or something?

from StringIO import StringIO


class FrankenString(StringIO):
	lastidx = 0
	atEnd = False
	def __iter__(self):
		while not self.atEnd:
			char =  self.read(1)
			idx = self.tell()
			if self.lastidx == idx:
				self.atEnd = True
			self.lastidx = idx
			yield char