Surprising difference between StringIO.StringIO and io.StringIO

[Serhiy Storchaka]

31.05.13 12:55, Peter Otten написав(ла):
> Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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>> 30.05.13 23:46, Skip Montanaro написав(ла):
>>> Am I missing something about how io.StringIO works?  I thought it was
>>> a more-or-less drop-in replacement for StringIO.StringIO.
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>> io.StringIO was backported from Python 3. It is a text (unicode) stream.
>> cStringIO.StringIO is a binary stream and StringIO.StringIO can be used
>> as binary or unicode stream depending on arguments. Use io.BaseIO as a
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> I think you mean io.BytesIO.

Indead, thank you for correction.

>> replacement for StringIO.StringIO/cStringIO.StringIO if you need a
>> binary stream.
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