Chapter 7. Input and Output
Tango offers a broad range of functionality for handling input/output (I/O). In this chapter, we introduce four principal features of the tango.io package:
Console I/O
Stream I/O
Network I/O
File handling.
First, let's get a couple of definitions out of the way. If you already familiar with the notion of streams, feel free to skip ahead.
Tango I/O is primarily stream-oriented. A stream represents a contiguous flow of data without any particular format or discernible feature. Applications may subsequently apply type or semantic structure (meaning) to the data, perhaps treating it as a set of records or lines of text. However, the flow is just a meaningless set of bytes at the raw stream level. Perhaps one common characteristic ...
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