From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T01:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing and using 'shim'

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, 2:53:31 AM, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "G" == Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

G>>  - I've found no instructions on using StringIO!

>  StringIO is one of these extensions which don't need documentation, or
>  more precisely just need to document ::new, #initialize

>  Once you have created a StringIO object, it must respond exactly like an
>  IO object. Just the differences must be given (see the file README)

The README omits the string and string= methods that are defined in
the C source.

I expect more than just IO-like behaviour from a class called
StringIO.

>  Add documentation for StringIO is just like duplicate the documentation
>  for IO.

I don't mean full documentation, but some examples of use would be
nice.  Unit tests are good for that, and that's what I used.
Unfortunately, they don't test the string and string= methods!

Maybe I'm not supposed to be using these methods.  I don't know how
else to achieve my goal.  That's why some demonstrations would be
nice.  (Just checked Wiki, nothing there.)

I'll detail my problem in a different thread, unless I can solve it
soon.

Gavin