Simulating a Text File For Testing in Python - (updated)

This is a preview of the video course, "Simulate a Text File in Python." Testing applications that read files from a disk can be challenging. Issues such as machine dependencies, special access requirements, and slow performance often arise when you need to read text from a file.

In this Code Conversation with instructor Martin Breuss, you’ll discover how to simplify this process by simulating text files with StringIO from the io module in Python’s standard library.

This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here:

The rest of the course covers:
- Perform file operations on a io.StringIO object
- Decide when to use io.StringIO and when to avoid it
- Understand possible alternatives

[hcubill]

Very cool I’ve been coding for ten years and didn’t know about this. Thanks!