[Python-3000] encoding hell

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> that's how seek/tell works on text files in today's Python, of course. 
> if you're writing portable code, you can only seek to the beginning or 
> end of the file, or to a position returned to you by tell.

True, but with arbitrary stacks of stream-transforming
objects the value might need to be even more opaque,
since it might need to encapsulate internal states of
decoders, etc. Could be very messy.

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Greg