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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2003-02-21 04:22:47 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2003-02-21 04:22:47 (GMT)
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Backport 1.7: Clarify when a read-only object is created.
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@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ Unlike the memory files implemented by the \refmodule{StringIO}
module, those provided by this module are not able to accept Unicode
strings that cannot be encoded as plain \ASCII{} strings.
+Another difference from the \refmodule{StringIO} module is that calling
+\function{StringIO()} with a string parameter creates a read-only object.
+Unlike an object created without a string parameter, it does not have
+write methods.
+
The following data objects are provided as well: