[Python-ideas] Atomic file.get(offset, length)

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "man pread" on OS/X suggests it exists there too
>
> "man pread" or "import os; help(os.pread" ;-) pread() and pwrite()
> have been added to Python 3.3.

Awesome. :-) But does the io module offer an API that uses it? It's
kind of awkward to have to call os.pread() with stream.fileno() as an
argument.

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