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Consider this quick session (Python 2.7 using the tip of the 2.7
branch in Mercurial):

% python2.7
Python 2.7.5+ (2.7:93eb15779050, May 30 2013, 15:27:39)
[GCC 4.4.6 [TWW]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import traceback
>>>
>>> import StringIO
>>> s1 = StringIO.StringIO()
>>> traceback.print_stack(file=s1)
>>> print s1.getvalue()
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

>>>
>>> import io
>>> s2 = io.StringIO()
>>> traceback.print_stack(file=s2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line
269, in print_stack
    print_list(extract_stack(f, limit), file)
  File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line
23, in print_list
    '  File "%s", line %d, in %s' % (filename,lineno,name))
  File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line
13, in _print
    file.write(str+terminator)
TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'
>>> print s2.getvalue()

What is it about io.StringIO that it doesn't like strings and requires
Unicode?  This is on an OpenSUSE 12.1 system.  I have tried with LANG
set to the default ("en_US.UTF-8") and to "C".  I also tried on a
Solaris system with an older micro revision of Python 2.7.  Same
result.

Am I missing something about how io.StringIO works?  I thought it was
a more-or-less drop-in replacement for StringIO.StringIO.

Thx,

Skip