import io


# Corrected a typo in Python261/Lib/io.py at line 1167
# return self.writer.closed() ==> return self.writer.closed
# in
#    @property
#    def closed(self):
#        return self.writer.closed

#also: shouldn't ascii strings still work in Python 2.6.1 for
#StringIO and TextIO? As shown below, writes only work with unicode strings.
#Python 3 changes default encoding to utf-8 but 2.6.1 is still ascii:
#>>> import sys
#>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
#'ascii'

ba = buffer('circle')
s = io.StringIO(ba)
print s.getvalue()
#ascii string doesn't work in Python 2.6.1 -- print s.write('square')
print s.write(u'square')
print s.read()
print s.getvalue(), '\n\n'

f = io.FileIO('ioex.txt', 'a+')
r = io.BufferedReader(f)
w = io.BufferedWriter(f)
p = io.BufferedRWPair(r, w)
t = io.TextIOWrapper(p, line_buffering=True)
print t.read(3)
print t.read()
print f.write('julius ceaser\n')
lines = ['william', 'shakespeare', '\n']
f.writelines(' '.join(lines))
#ascii string doesn't work in Python 2.6.1 -- print t.write('marc anthony\n')
print t.write(u'marc anthony\n')