cstringio – Tarik Billa

Confusing about StringIO, cStringIO and ByteIO

December 28, 2023 by Tarik

You should use io.StringIO for handling unicode objects and io.BytesIO for handling bytes objects in both python 2 and 3, for forwards-compatibility (this is all 3 has to offer). Here’s a better test (for python 2 and 3), that doesn’t include conversion costs from numpy to str/bytes import numpy as np import string b_data = … Read more

python 3.x ImportError: No module named ‘cStringIO’

January 2, 2023 by Tarik

From Python 3.0 changelog: The StringIO and cStringIO modules are gone. Instead, import the io module and use io.StringIO or io.BytesIO for text and data respectively. From the Python 3 email documentation it can be seen that io.StringIO should be used instead: from io import StringIO from email.generator import Generator fp = StringIO() g = … Read more