Introducing StringIO module

# Introducing StringIO
# script converts string into a file object

import StringIO
contents="gaurav is a bad boy"
ssock=StringIO.StringIO(contents)
print ssock.read()
# Now nothing will be printed
print ssock.read()
# seek the file
ssock.seek(0)
# now read 15 characters
print ssock.read(15)
ssock.close()