you may have an excellent point, there. But I haven't looked at how cStringIO is implemented: does it construct a list of strings and then join them when they are requested, thus keeping alive all the string objects passed to it? Or does it concatenate the bytes into a buffer?
I just realized that the Python 3 memoryview object also provides the wherewithal to construct a string buffer, even in pure Python.
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you may have an excellent point, there. But I haven't looked at how cStringIO is implemented: does it construct a list of strings and then join them when they are requested, thus keeping alive all the string objects passed to it? Or does it concatenate the bytes into a buffer?
I just realized that the Python 3 memoryview object also provides the wherewithal to construct a string buffer, even in pure Python.