WhateverIO

StringIO that takes bytes or str.

Constructor

Signature

def WhateverIO(
    v: bytes | str | None = None,
    *a: Any,
    **kw: Any
) - > None

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
v	`bytes	str
*a	Any	Variable length argument list passed to the parent class.
**kw	Any	Arbitrary keyword arguments passed to the parent class.

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Signature

def WhateverIO(
    v: bytes | str | None = None,
    *a: Any,
    **kw: Any
) - > None

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
v	`bytes	str
*a	Any	Variable positional arguments passed to the underlying StringIO initializer.
**kw	Any	Variable keyword arguments passed to the underlying StringIO initializer.

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Methods

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write()

@classmethod
def write(
    data: bytes | str
) - > int

Writes the provided data to the buffer, automatically decoding bytes to strings if necessary to ensure compatibility with the underlying StringIO implementation.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
data	`bytes	str`

Returns

Type	Description
int	The number of characters written to the buffer.

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