when i write import StringIO it says there is no such module.

From What’s New In Python 3.0:

The StringIO and cStringIO modules are gone. Instead, import the io module and use io.StringIO or io.BytesIO for text and data respectively.

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A possibly useful method of fixing some Python 2 code to also work in Python 3 (caveat emptor):

try:
    from StringIO import StringIO ## for Python 2
except ImportError:
    from io import StringIO ## for Python 3

Note: This example may be tangential to the main issue of the question and is included only as something to consider when generically addressing the missing StringIO module. For a more direct solution the message TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly, see this answer.

Answer from Brent Bradburn on Stack Overflow
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Hello,

I'm trying to deploy on Heroku and make it work with AWS S3, but turns out it can't properly import boto or django-storages. I've learned that django-storages-redux solves the StringIO import error of Python 3; it works on my development machine, but it's not imported properly when I run the shell on Heroku. Boto, django-storages, and django-storages-redux are in the requirements.txt and are displayed when using pip list.

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage # this works
default_storage.exists('test') # returns False on my dev machine, errors on Heroku

EDIT: Apparently Heroku does some weird thing, where the traceback shows ImportError of StringIO from s3boto.py, line 9, but according to this that line should've been changed already.

EDIT: Turns out it had to do something with the installed packages being cached; the solution was to change runtime.txt to refresh the whole thing, as suggested here.

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