[Patches] [ python-Patches-1757683 ] Add support for seeking/writing beyond EOF to io.BytesIO

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Patches item #1757683, was opened at 2007-07-20 13:10
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 3000
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Alexandre Vassalotti (avassalotti)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Add support for seeking/writing beyond EOF to io.BytesIO

Initial Comment:
The patch makes BytesIO inserts null bytes between the current EOF and the new write position.

See discussion on the Python-3000 mailing list:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-June/008592.html

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Comment By: Alexandre Vassalotti (avassalotti)
Date: 2007-07-20 20:52

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I already have one in my unittests for BytesIO/StringIO in my branch.

 
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/cpy_merge/Lib/test/test_memoryio.py?rev=56445&view=markup

It is called test_overseek and it is in the PyBytesIOTest class.

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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2007-07-20 20:25

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Committed revision 56475.

Would you mind adding a unit test for this?

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