Re: [ESPResSo-users] About import of cStringIO

[Pierre de Buyl]

Of course, I forgot the attachement.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:20:21PM +0100, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in
> 
> src/python/espressomd/MDA_ESP/__init__.py
> 
> there is an import to cStringIO that is a Python 2 only feature. The
> funcionality of cStringIO.StringIO is provided by io.StringIO in Python 3 but
> six http://six.readthedocs.io/#module-six.moves allows to replace it by
> 
> from six.moves import cStringIO
> 
> and six is apparently an implied dependency anyway as it is required by 
> MDAnalysis
> 
> https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/blob/develop/package/setup.py
> 
> If you think that it is useful, I attach a patch that I used on my computer. 
> To
> apply the patch, one can use "git apply".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pierre

0001-Use-six-for-2-3-compatible-use-of-cStringIO.patch
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