diff -r 8906713d5704 Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst --- a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ An optional pointer to the instance print function. The print function is only called when the instance is printed to a *real* file; - when it is printed to a pseudo-file (like a :class:`StringIO` instance), the + when it is printed to a pseudo-file (like a :class:`io.StringIO` instance), the instance's :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_repr` or :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_str` function is called to convert it to a string. These are also called when the type's :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_print` field is *NULL*. A type should never implement :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_print` in a way that produces diff -r 8906713d5704 Doc/library/gzip.rst --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ value. The new class instance is based on *fileobj*, which can be a regular file, a - :class:`StringIO` object, or any other object which simulates a file. It + :class:`io.BytesIO` object, or any other object which simulates a file. It defaults to ``None``, in which case *filename* is opened to provide a file object. diff -r 8906713d5704 Doc/library/mailbox.rst --- a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -674,8 +674,8 @@ In Babyl mailboxes, the headers of a message are not stored contiguously with the body of the message. To generate a file-like representation, the - headers and body are copied together into a :class:`StringIO` instance - (from the :mod:`StringIO` module), which has an API identical to that of a + headers and body are copied together into a :class:`io.BytesIO` instance, + which has an API identical to that of a file. As a result, the file-like object is truly independent of the underlying mailbox but does not save memory compared to a string representation. diff -r 8906713d5704 Doc/library/tempfile.rst --- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ causes the file to roll over to an on-disk file regardless of its size. The returned object is a file-like object whose :attr:`_file` attribute - is either a :class:`BytesIO` or :class:`StringIO` object (depending on + is either a :class:`io.BytesIO` or :class:`io.StringIO` object (depending on whether binary or text *mode* was specified) or a true file object, depending on whether :func:`rollover` has been called. This file-like object can be used in a :keyword:`with` statement, just like diff -r 8906713d5704 Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst --- a/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.mock.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -1104,9 +1104,9 @@ ... TypeError: 'NonCallableMock' object is not callable -Another use case might be to replace an object with a `StringIO` instance: - - >>> from StringIO import StringIO +Another use case might be to replace an object with a `io.StringIO` instance: + + >>> from io import StringIO >>> def foo(): ... print 'Something' ... --- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst Fri Aug 16 19:36:18 2013 +0200 +++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst Fri Aug 16 21:25:21 2013 +0300 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ .. function:: parseString(string, parser=None) Return a :class:`Document` that represents the *string*. This method creates a - :class:`StringIO` object for the string and passes that on to :func:`parse`. + :class:`io.StringIO` object for the string and passes that on to :func:`parse`. Both functions return a :class:`Document` object representing the content of the document.