[Python-3000] iostack, second revision

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, September 08, 2006, at 03:41PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:37:00 +0200, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>On Friday, September 08, 2006, at 02:30PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>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.
>
>New in Python 2.5, so Python will finally be caught up with C when 2.5
>final is released :)

The same constants are also defined in posixfile, which even according to python 2.3 is deprecated. Sigh...

Ronald