# IO Base Classes (`pydicom.filebase`)

Basic I/O support classes.

`DicomBytesIO`([initial_bytes]) | Wrapper for `io.BytesIO` to simplify encoding/decoding DICOM datasets.
`DicomFile`(*args, **kwargs) | Return an opened `DicomFileLike` from a file-like.
`DicomFileLike`(buffer) | Wrapper for file-likes to simplify encoding/decoding DICOM datasets.
`DicomIO`(buffer) | Wrapper for managing buffer-like objects used when reading or writing DICOM datasets.