Re: [Python-Dev] io.BufferedReader.peek() Behaviour in python3.1

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels <at> Acm.Org> writes:

MRAB wrote:

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I was thinking along the lines of: def peek(self, size=None, block=True) If 'block' is True then return 'size' bytes, unless the end of the file/stream is reached; if 'block' is False then return up to 'size' bytes, without blocking....

I tend to prefer zero-ish defaults, how about: def peek(self, size=None, nonblocking=False)

Since blocking and non-blocking are already used to refer to different types of raw streams, another verb should be found for this option. Antoine.