[Python-3000] properties on IOBase

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 10 23:28:08 CEST 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson
>  >  <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Should IOBase's writeable, readable, and seekable methods have
>  >  >  decorators like the closed method?
>  >
>  >  No, read the PEP.
>  I did. It doesn't mention closed at all, so I though I'd ask.

Well closed is a property (always has been) and the others are
methods. There are good reasons why the design is this way.

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