[Python-checkins] r88335 - in python/branches/release31-maint: Doc/library/io.rst
antoine.pitrou
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Fri Feb 4 21:17:40 CET 2011
Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Fri Feb 4 21:17:40 2011
New Revision: 88335
Log:
Merged revisions 88334 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r88334 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-02-04 21:11:11 +0100 (ven., 04 févr. 2011) | 3 lines
Mention that seek and tell over a TextIOWrapper can be very slow.
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Modified:
python/branches/release31-maint/ (props changed)
python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/io.rst
Modified: python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/io.rst
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--- python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/io.rst (original)
+++ python/branches/release31-maint/Doc/library/io.rst Fri Feb 4 21:17:40 2011
@@ -796,6 +796,8 @@
binary I/O over the same storage, because it implies conversions from
unicode to binary data using a character codec. This can become noticeable
if you handle huge amounts of text data (for example very large log files).
+Also, :meth:`TextIOWrapper.tell` and :meth:`TextIOWrapper.seek` are both
+quite slow due to the reconstruction algorithm used.
:class:`StringIO`, however, is a native in-memory unicode container and will
exhibit similar speed to :class:`BytesIO`.
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