[Python-3000] iostack, second revision

[Jack Diederich]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:24:10AM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 septembre 2006 ? 15:04 -0400, Jim Jewett a ?crit :
> > > What about seek(), seek_relative() and seek_reverse() ?
> > 
> > Why not just borrow the standard symbolic names of cur and end?
> > 
> >     seek(pos=0)
> >     seek_cur(pos=0)
> >     seek_end(pos=0)

I like the C-ish style because I'm used to it.  These are OK so
long as seek(n, 2) raises an informative exception.  I was initially
going to suggest seek_abs() for the absolute seek but if it remains
plain seek() old users won't have to go searching docs and help()
would be .. helpful.

-Jack