So, I create a StringIO object to treat my string as a file:
>>> a = 'Me, you and them\n'
>>> import io
>>> f = io.StringIO(a)
>>> f.read(1)
'M'
And then I proceed to close the 'file':
>>> f.close()
>>> f.closed
True
Now, when I try to open the 'file' again, Python does not permit me to do so:
>>> p = open(f)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#166>", line 1, in <module>
p = open(f)
TypeError: invalid file: <_io.StringIO object at 0x0325D4E0>
Is there a way to 'reopen' a closed StringIO object? Or should it be declared again using the io.StringIO() method?
Thanks!
I have a nice hack, which I am currently using for testing (Since my code can make I/O operations, and giving it StringIO is a nice get-around).
If this problem is kind of one time thing:
st = StringIO()
close = st.close
st.close = lambda: None
f(st) # Some function which can make I/O changes and finally close st
st.getvalue() # This is available now
close() # If you don't want to store the close function you can also:
StringIO.close(st)
If this is recurring thing, you can also define a context-manager:
@contextlib.contextmanager
def uncloseable(fd):
"""
Context manager which turns the fd's close operation to no-op for the duration of the context.
"""
close = fd.close
fd.close = lambda: None
yield fd
fd.close = close
which can be used in the following way:
st = StringIO()
with uncloseable(st):
f(st)
# Now st is still open!!!
I hope this helps you with your problem, and if not, I hope you will find the solution you are looking for. Note: This should work exactly the same for other file-like objects.
The builtin open() creates a file object (i.e. a stream), but in your example, f is already a stream. That's the reason why you get TypeError: invalid file
After the method close() has executed, any stream operation will raise ValueError. And the documentation does not mention about how to reopen a closed stream.
Maybe you need not close() the stream yet if you want to use (reopen) it again later.
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