cStringIO.StringIO has no write method?

[Simon Forman]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> >>
> > Nope. StringI is an input-only object, StringO is an output object. You
> > got a StringI because you gave a string argument to the creator.
> >
> >
> >  >>> f1 = cStringIO.StringIO()
> >  >>> f1
> > <cStringIO.StringO object at 0x186c9c00>
> >  >>> dir(f1)
> > ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
> > '__init__', '__iter__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
> > '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 'close', 'closed', 'flush',
> > 'getvalue', 'isatty', 'next', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'reset',
> > 'seek', 'softspace', 'tell', 'truncate', 'write', 'writelines']
> >  >>> f2 = cStringIO.StringIO("This is the fixed content of the StringIO")
> >  >>> f2
> > <cStringIO.StringI object at 0x18661440>
> >  >>> dir(f2)
> > ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
> > '__init__', '__iter__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
> > '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__str__', 'close', 'closed', 'flush',
> > 'getvalue', 'isatty', 'next', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'reset',
> > 'seek', 'tell', 'truncate']
> >  >>>
> >
> Is it possible to have a direct access in-memory file that can be
> written and read too?
>
>    Laszlo

I think that's what you'd get if you changed

f = cStringIO.StringIO('') 

to

f = cStringIO.StringIO() 

?