[Python-ideas] file API

[MRAB]

On 2012-09-28 03:07, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Jim Jewett wrote:
>
>> For text files, I would expect it to be a character count rather than
>> a byte count.  So this particular proposal might end up adding as much
>> confusion as it hopes to remove.
>
> I'm given to understand that the file positions used by
> the C standard library are supposed to be treated as
> opaque tokens -- you're not guaranteed to be able to
> perform arithmetic on them.
>
Yet you're allowed to do relative seeks? Does that mean that the file
position basically works with some undefined units (bytes, characters,
whatever)?