Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a custom class, which has some string data. I wish to be able to save this string data to a file, using a file handle’s write object. I have implemented __str__(), so i can do str(myobject), what is the equivalent method for making python consider my object to be a character buffer object?
If you are trying to use your object with library code, that expects to be able to write what you give it to a file, then you may have to resort to implementing a “duck file” class that acts like a
filebut supports your stringable object. Unfortunately,fileis not a type that you can subclass easily, at least as of Python 2.6. You will have to implement enough of the file protocol (write,writelines,tell, etc.) to allow the library code to work as expected.