Wrap an open stream with io.TextIOWrapper

Question

How can I wrap an open binary stream – a Python 2 file, a Python 3 io.BufferedReader, an io.BytesIO – in an io.TextIOWrapper

Answer 1

It turns out you just need to wrap your io.BytesIO in io.BufferedReader which exists on both Python 2 and Python 3.

import io

reader = io.BufferedReader(io.BytesIO("Lorem ipsum".encode("utf-8")))
wrapper = io.TextIOWrapper(reader)
wrapper.read()  # returns Lorem ipsum

This answer originally suggested using os.pipe, but the read-side of the pipe would have to be wrapped in io.BufferedReader on Python 2 anyway to work, so this solution is simpler and avoids allocating a pipe.