From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-01T23:46:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Should StringIO support to_str ?

Hi,

In message "Should StringIO support to_str ?"
    on 04/04/30, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

|How is one supposed to get a string from a StringIO?  If it is an
|extension of string should it not support the new to_str method?

I don't think it should.  StringIO is an IO (actually a duck quacks
like an IO) based on a string, but not a string itself.

							matz.