[Python-3000] On PEP 3116: new I/O base classes
Gareth McCaughan
gareth.mccaughan at pobox.com
Wed Jun 20 01:26:16 CEST 2007
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:47, Bill Janssen wrote:
> The "seek" method on RawIOBase is awfully quaint and UNIX-y, what with
> the "whence" argument. It could be made considerably more Pythonic by
> splitting it into two methods:
>
> .seek(POS: int)
>
> where positive values for POS are from the beginning of the file, and
> negative values of POS are from the end of the file, and
>
> .nudge(POS: int)
>
> where the value of POS, positive or negative, is from the current
> location.
Presumably this would go along with introducing a new "wink" method.
I wonder what it would do. (Close the file briefly?)
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Gareth McCaughan
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