From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:08:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: another cStringIO restriction
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another cStringIO restriction
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stringio.rst b/Doc/library/stringio.rst
index f7f6771c2a73..30a5bac7d4c9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stringio.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stringio.rst
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ made more efficient by using the function :func:`StringIO` from this module
 instead.
 
 Since this module provides a factory function which returns objects of built-in
-types, there's no way to build your own version using subclassing.  Use the
-original :mod:`StringIO` module in that case.
+types, there's no way to build your own version using subclassing.  It's not
+possible to set attributes on it.  Use the original :mod:`StringIO` module in
+those cases.
 
 Unlike the memory files implemented by the :mod:`StringIO` module, those
 provided by this module are not able to accept Unicode strings that cannot be