Question

Is there a Python class that wraps the file interface (read, write etc.) around a string? I mean something like the stringstream classes in C++.

I was thinking of using it to redirect the output of print into a string, like this

sys.stdout = string_wrapper() print 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' s = sys.stdout.to_string() #now s == 'foo bar baz' 

EDIT: This is a duplicate of How do I wrap a string in a file in Python?

Answer 1

Yes, there is StringIO:

import StringIO import sys   sys.stdout = StringIO.StringIO() print 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' s = sys.stdout.getvalue()