How to create fake text file in Python

Or you could implement it yourself pretty easily especially since all you need is readlines():

class FileSpoof:
     def __init__(self,my_text):
         self.my_text = my_text
     def readlines(self):
         return self.my_text.splitlines()

then just call it like:

somefake = FileSpoof("This is a bunch\nOf Text!")
print somefake.readlines()

That said the other answer is probably more correct.

This is exactly what StringIO/cStringIO (renamed to io.StringIO in Python 3) is for.

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