Can I use cStringIO the same as StringIO?

Question

I did this:

import cStringIO.StringIO as StringIO

And I realize I\'ve been using it everywhere. Is that fine? Is it treated the same as String

Answer 1

Nor can you set attributes on a cStringIO.StringIO instance:

>>> from cStringIO import StringIO
>>> s = StringIO()
>>> s.name = 'myfile'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: 'cStringIO.StringO' object has no attribute 'name'

Several libraries depend on File-like objects having either a name or content_type attribute, so cStringIO.StringIO does not work in these instances.