Treat a string as a file in python

Question

In the interest of not rewriting an open source library, I want to treat a string of text as a file in python 3.

Suppose I have the file contents as a stri

Answer 1

StringIO returns an StringIO object, it's almost equivalent to the file object returned by the open statement. So basically, you can use the StringIO in place of the open statement.

# from io import StringIO for python 3
from StringIO import StringIO
with StringIO('there is a lot of blah blah in this so-called file') as f:
    print(f.read())

Output:

there is a lot of blah blah in this so-called file