How do I wrap a string in a file in Python?

问题

How do I create a file-like object (same duck type as File) with the contents of a string?

回答1:

For Python 2.x, use the StringIO module. For example:

>>> from cStringIO import StringIO
>>> f = StringIO('foo')
>>> f.read()
'foo'

I use cStringIO (which is faster), but note that it doesn't accept Unicode strings that cannot be encoded as plain ASCII strings. (You can switch to StringIO by changing "from cStringIO" to "from StringIO".)

For Python 3.x, use the io module.

f = io.StringIO('foo')

回答2:

In Python 3.0:

import io

with io.StringIO() as f:
    f.write('abcdef')
    print('gh', file=f)
    f.seek(0)
    print(f.read())

回答3:

Two good answers. I’d add a little trick — if you need a real file object (some methods expect one, not just an interface), here is a way to create an adapter: