python file API
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Sep 24 19:12:30 EDT 2012
On 24/09/2012 22:35, zipher wrote:
> For some time now, I've wanted to suggest a better abstraction for the <file> type in Python. It currently uses an antiquated C-style interface for moving around in a file, with methods like tell() and seek(). But after attributes were introduced to Python, it seems it should be re-addressed.
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> Let file-type have an attribute .pos for position. Now you can get rid of the seek() and tell() methods and manipulate the file pointer more easily with standard arithmetic operations.
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>>>> file.pos = x0ae1 #move file pointer to an absolute address
>>>> file.pos +=1 #increment the file pointer one byte
>>>> curr_pos = file.pos #read current file pointer
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> You've now simplified the API by the removal of two obscure legacy methods and replaced them with a more basic one called "position".
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> Thoughts?
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> markj
>
This strikes me as being a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it.
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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