On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:48:29PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> There's a catch to using cStringIO if you're not handling plain ASCII. >> I saw the following paragraph in the cStringIO documentation: >> >> Unlike the memory files implemented by the StringIO module, >> those provided by this module are not able to accept Unicode >> strings that cannot be encoded as plain ASCII strings >> (http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/lib/module-cStringIO.html) >> >> If licenses are only in ASCII, then cStringIO would be preferable. > > The pydoc page for cStringIO doesn't include such a warning, of course :( > > Thanks for the note.
We've been using cStringIO on arbitrary data in various parts of the code for a while, now, without any problems. Perhaps we're just getting lucky? Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
