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I can’t seem to find what’s the default encoding for io.StringIO in Python3. Is it the locale as with stdio?
How can I change it?
With stdio, seems that just reopening with correct encoding works, but there’s no such thing as reopening a StringIO.
The class
io.StringIOworks withstrobjects in Python 3. That is, you can only read and write strings from aStringIOinstance. There is no encoding — you have to choose one if you want to encode the strings you got fromStringIOin abytesobject, but strings themselves don’t have an encoding.(Of course strings need to be internally represented in some encoding. Depending on your interpreter, that encoding is either UCS-2 or UCS-4, but you don’t see this implementation detail when working with Python.)