StringIO in python

STRINGIO IN PYTHON

2020 July 1

Python StringIO allows using an in-memory string as a file object.
The object can be used as input or output for functions that expect a file object
io.StringIO when you need to write text
io.BytesIO when you need to write data
You will have to manually handle positioning in the “file” - e.g. with the seek() method.
Example:

# Importing the StringIO module.
from io import StringIO

# The arbitrary string.
string ='This is initial string.'

# Using the StringIO method to set as file object.
# Now we have an object file that we will able to treat just like a file.
file = StringIO(string)

# this will read the file
print(file.read())

# We can also write this file.
file.write(" Welcome to geeksforgeeks.")

# This will make the cursor at index 0.
file.seek(0)

# This will print the file after writing in the initial string.
print('The string after writing is:', file.read())

STRINGIO IN PYTHON

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