[Tutor] StringIO

[Danny Yoo]

> I want to use the module StringIO as read and write strings as files, I 
> looked into document but cannot understand. Could anyone give me a 
> simple example?
>
> something like:
> from StringIO import *
> fin = StringIO("abc")
> .....
> How can I used fin?

'fin' is a file-like object at this point, so you can do things 
like:

     fin.read(1)

to get a single byte.  The list of things we can do with file-like objects 
is here:

     http://www.python.org/doc/lib/bltin-file-objects.html


Does this help?  Good luck!