[Python-Dev] Small question about BufferedRandom spec

[Antoine Pitrou]

Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> However, the semantics of interleaving
> reads and writes, with and without seek calls in between, should be
> well-defined and correct/useful, so that it behaves the same
> regardless of the buffer size.

Yes, the goal is to have reasonably intuitive, and meaningful, semantics.

> Ditto for the flush call currently implied by a seek -- if you can
> satisfy the seek by moving where you are in the buffer without
> flushing, that's fine IMO, but it should be well documented.

That's also part of what I've tried to optimize.
The documentation is currently in the limbs, though.

Thanks!

Antoine.