diff Doc/lib/libstringio.tex @ 28002:77bef6aa48e5 2.2

Backport 1.7: Clarify when a read-only object is created.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:22:47 +0000
parents 33b4357aebb8
children 2c6f92cddbad
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstringio.tex	Fri Feb 21 04:18:32 2003 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstringio.tex	Fri Feb 21 04:22:47 2003 +0000
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
 module, those provided by this module are not able to accept Unicode
 strings that cannot be encoded as plain \ASCII{} strings.
 
+Another difference from the \refmodule{StringIO} module is that calling
+\function{StringIO()} with a string parameter creates a read-only object.
+Unlike an object created without a string parameter, it does not have
+write methods.
+
 The following data objects are provided as well: