X = ABC (example data)
print(type(x)) ---> <class '_io.StringIO'>
Y = ABC (example data)
print(type(x)) ---> <class '_io.StringIO'>
Z=X+Y Is it possible to append of these types
data= Z.getvalue()
How to achieve this with or without converting to other data types?
Do we have any other ways rather than this?
Since StringIO has a file-like interface - which means you can merge them in the same way as you would when copying files between file-like objects:
from io import StringIO
from shutil import copyfileobj
a = StringIO('foo')
b = StringIO('bar')
c = StringIO()
copyfileobj(a, c)
copyfileobj(b, c)
print(c.getvalue()) # foobar
Since file-like objects also support iteration directly you can use chain from itertools to either iterate over them in sequence or create a string or a new StringIO object from them:
from itertools import chain
from io import StringIO
a = StringIO('foo')
b = StringIO('bar')
c = StringIO(''.join(chain(a, b)))
print(c.getvalue()) # foobar
.. but in that case you can just call getvalue() and concatenate the values:
from io import StringIO
a = StringIO('foo')
b = StringIO('bar')
c = StringIO(a.getvalue() + b.getvalue())
print(c.getvalue()) # foobar
.. so it kind of depends on what you want. Using itertools.chain means that you can just iterate over the contents of both StringIO buffers without creating a third object StringIO object.
