Using string as file

[Florian Lindner]

Hello,
I have a function from a library thast expects a file object as argument.
How can I manage to give the function a string resp. have the text it would
have written to file object as a string?

Thanks,

Florian

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Re: Using string as file

On Mar 5, 8:13 pm, Florian Lindner <Florian.Lind.. .@xgm.dewrote:

Hello,
I have a function from a library thast expects a file object as argument.
How can I manage to give the function a string resp. have the text it would
have written to file object as a string?
>
Thanks,
>
Florian

See

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-StringIO.html

--
Arnaud

[Paddy]

Re: Using string as file

On Mar 5, 8:13 pm, Florian Lindner <Florian.Lind.. .@xgm.dewrote:

Hello,
I have a function from a library thast expects a file object as argument.
How can I manage to give the function a string resp. have the text it would
have written to file object as a string?
>
Thanks,
>
Florian

You can also look at example 3 here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest#Example_3:_unique_words.py

- Paddy.