The io Library

Introduction

The I/O library exports the following modules:

• The format Module
  • Introduction
  • Control strings
  • The format Module
• The format-out Module
  • Introduction
  • The format-out module
• The print and pprint Modules
  • Introduction
  • Print functions
  • Pretty printing
  • The print Module
  • The pprint Module
• The streams Module
  • Introduction
  • Discussing error conditions
  • Goals of the module
  • Concepts
  • Stream classes
  • Reading from and writing to streams
  • Using buffered streams
  • Wrapper streams
  • Conditions
  • Streams protocols
  • The streams Module Reference
• The standard-io Module
  • Introduction
  • Handling standard input and output
  • The standard-io module