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1"""The io module provides the Python interfaces to stream handling. The
2builtin open function is defined in this module.
3
4At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class IOBase. It
5defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
6separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are
7allowed to throw an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
8
9Extending IOBase is RawIOBase which deals simply with the reading and
10writing of raw bytes to a stream. FileIO subclasses RawIOBase to provide
11an interface to OS files.
12
13BufferedIOBase deals with buffering on a raw byte stream (RawIOBase). Its
14subclasses, BufferedWriter, BufferedReader, and BufferedRWPair buffer
15streams that are readable, writable, and both respectively.
16BufferedRandom provides a buffered interface to random access
17streams. BytesIO is a simple stream of in-memory bytes.
18
19Another IOBase subclass, TextIOBase, deals with the encoding and decoding
20of streams into text. TextIOWrapper, which extends it, is a buffered text
21interface to a buffered raw stream (`BufferedIOBase`). Finally, StringIO
22is a in-memory stream for text.
23
24Argument names are not part of the specification, and only the arguments
25of open() are intended to be used as keyword arguments.
26
27data:
28
29DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
30
31   An int containing the default buffer size used by the module's buffered
32   I/O classes. open() uses the file's blksize (as obtained by os.stat) if
33   possible.
34"""
35# New I/O library conforming to PEP 3116.
36
37# XXX edge cases when switching between reading/writing
38# XXX need to support 1 meaning line-buffered
39# XXX whenever an argument is None, use the default value
40# XXX read/write ops should check readable/writable
41# XXX buffered readinto should work with arbitrary buffer objects
42# XXX use incremental encoder for text output, at least for UTF-16 and UTF-8-SIG
43# XXX check writable, readable and seekable in appropriate places
44
45
46__author__ = ("Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>, "
47              "Mike Verdone <mike.verdone@gmail.com>, "
48              "Mark Russell <mark.russell@zen.co.uk>, "
49              "Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>, "
50              "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>, "
51              "Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>")
52
53__all__ = ["BlockingIOError", "open", "IOBase", "RawIOBase", "FileIO",
54           "BytesIO", "StringIO", "BufferedIOBase",
55           "BufferedReader", "BufferedWriter", "BufferedRWPair",
56           "BufferedRandom", "TextIOBase", "TextIOWrapper",
57           "UnsupportedOperation", "SEEK_SET", "SEEK_CUR", "SEEK_END"]
58
59
60import _io
61import abc
62
63from _io import (DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE, BlockingIOError, UnsupportedOperation,
64                 open, FileIO, BytesIO, StringIO, BufferedReader,
65                 BufferedWriter, BufferedRWPair, BufferedRandom,
66                 IncrementalNewlineDecoder, TextIOWrapper)
67
68OpenWrapper = _io.open # for compatibility with _pyio
69
70# for seek()
71SEEK_SET = 0
72SEEK_CUR = 1
73SEEK_END = 2
74
75# Declaring ABCs in C is tricky so we do it here.
76# Method descriptions and default implementations are inherited from the C
77# version however.
78class IOBase(_io._IOBase):
79    __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
80
81class RawIOBase(_io._RawIOBase, IOBase):
82    pass
83
84class BufferedIOBase(_io._BufferedIOBase, IOBase):
85    pass
86
87class TextIOBase(_io._TextIOBase, IOBase):
88    pass
89
90RawIOBase.register(FileIO)
91
92for klass in (BytesIO, BufferedReader, BufferedWriter, BufferedRandom,
93              BufferedRWPair):
94    BufferedIOBase.register(klass)
95
96for klass in (StringIO, TextIOWrapper):
97    TextIOBase.register(klass)
98del klass
99