[Python-3000] On PEP 3116: new I/O base classes

[Christian Heimes]

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

How would I seek to EOF with your proposal? seek(-0)?

Christian