io — Easy Examples

Core I/O tools: StringIO, BytesIO, and file I/O class hierarchy

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Getting started with io

Basic import and usage of the io module.

python
from io import StringIO, BytesIO

# StringIO - text stream
sio = StringIO()
sio.write("Hello, ")
sio.write("World!")
print(sio.getvalue())

# BytesIO - binary stream
bio = BytesIO()
bio.write(b"Binary data")
print(bio.getvalue())

The io module is part of Python's standard library. Core I/O tools: StringIO, BytesIO, and file I/O class hierarchy.

Common io operations

Frequently used functions from the io module.

python
# More io examples
import io

print(f"io module loaded successfully")
print(f"Location: {io.__name__}")
print(f"Has {len(dir(io))} attributes")

These are the most commonly used features of the io module.

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