[issue26817] Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO

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[issue26817] Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO

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[issue26817] Docs for StringIO should link to io.BytesIO

New submission from Thomas Guettler: I think a warning at the top of StringIO docs is needed. And it should link to io.BytesIO. Maybe even deprecate StringIO and cStringIO in Python2? StringIO docs: https://docs.python.org/2/library/stringio.html io.BytesIO docs: