StringIO in 2.6 and beyond

[Bill McClain]

I've just installed 2.6, had been using 2.4.

This was working for me:

    #! /usr/bin/env python
    import StringIO
    out = StringIO.StringIO()
    print >> out, 'hello'

I used 2to3, and added import from future to get:

    #! /usr/bin/env python
    from __future__ import print_function
    import io
    out = io.StringIO()
    print('hello', file=out)

...which gives an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./example.py", line 5, in <module>
    print('hello', file=out)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/io.py", line 1487, in write
    s.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: can't write str to text stream

...which has me stumped. Why can't it?

-Bill
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