[Alex Martelli]
> cStringIO -- I've noticed most newbies find it more natural to "write to
> a cStringIO.StringIO pseudofile as they go" then getvalue, rather than
> append'ing to a list of strings then ''.join .
I do not doubt that cStringIO is useful to know, and a tutorial could
throw a short glimpse here about why the `c' prefix and speed issues.
For a newcomer, here might be a good opportunity for illustrating one
surprising capability of Python for those coming from other languages,
which is using bound methods as "first-class" objects. Like:
fragments = []
write = fragments.append
...
<code using `write' above>
...
result = ''.join(fragments)
I think this approach is not much more difficult than `StringIO', not so
bad efficiency-wise, but likely more fruitful about developing Python
useful understanding and abilities. A tutorial might also show that the
said `write' could be given and received in functions, which do not have
to "know" if they are writing to a file, or in-memory fragments.
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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