From 1e139607271c578fb480048bc5311f8bd233436c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:08:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] another cStringIO restriction --- Doc/library/stringio.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stringio.rst b/Doc/library/stringio.rst index f7f6771c2a7..30a5bac7d4c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stringio.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stringio.rst @@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ made more efficient by using the function :func:`StringIO` from this module instead. Since this module provides a factory function which returns objects of built-in -types, there's no way to build your own version using subclassing. Use the -original :mod:`StringIO` module in that case. +types, there's no way to build your own version using subclassing. It's not +possible to set attributes on it. Use the original :mod:`StringIO` module in +those cases. Unlike the memory files implemented by the :mod:`StringIO` module, those provided by this module are not able to accept Unicode strings that cannot be