[Python-3000] iostack, second revision

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, September 08, 2006, at 02:30PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:26:55 -0700, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 08/09/06, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>Perhaps it would be good to drop those magic numbers (0, 1, 2) for
>>>seek() ? They don't really help readibility except perhaps for people
>>>who still do a lot of C ;)
>>
>>+1
>>If we can't don't want to eliminate the "magic numbers" entirely, perhaps we
>>could assign symbolic constants to them? fileobj.seek(fileobj.START) for
>>instance?
>
>Note that Python is _worse_ than C here.  C has named constants for these,
>Python does not expose them.

What about os.SEEK_SET, os.SEEK_CUR, os.SEEK_END? The named constants are there, just not at the most convenient location.

Ronald
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>Jean-Paul
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