[Python-ideas] BufferedIO and detach

[Greg Ewing]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:14:08 +1300,
> Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> a
> écrit :

>>Maybe you could be allowed to read() from the buffered
>>stream after detatching the underlying source, which
>>would then return any data remaining in the buffer.
> 
> Perhaps detach() can take an optional argument for that indeed.

Does it need to be optional? Is there likely to be any
code around that relies on read() *not* working on a
detached stream?

-- 
Greg