In Python, how do I transform a string into a file?

Question

There is a read-only library function that takes a file as an argument. But I have a string.

How do I convert a string to a file, that if you read the file it will return this string? I don't want to write to disk.

The question is not about learning how to write a string to disk. So your purpose in transforming a string to a file would be to exploit some property or behavior specific to a file and not found (or easily emulated) with a string. If so, which properties/behaviors? If not, what is this about ? — mjv
– mjv, Commented Oct 15, 2009 at 4:17

Phil · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-15 04:15:29Z

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The StringIO module:

>>> import StringIO
>>> f = StringIO.StringIO("foo")
>>> f.read()
'foo'

The cStringIO module has the same interface, and is faster, but can't deal with Unicode strings that have non-ASCII characters.

answered Oct 15, 2009 at 4:15

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user149513 · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-15 07:54:18Z

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what do you want? if you want to read from file just use:

file('/path/to/file').read()

or

open('/path/to/file','r').read()

if you want to read string,just do as suggest by Phil

answered Oct 15, 2009 at 7:54

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