[Tutor] Re: Naive Questions

[Michael Powe]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Michael Powe wrote:
> | hello,
> | 
> | a couple questions to which i haven't been able to find answers.
> | 
> | i don't seem to find a python equivalent to the "rewind" file operation
> | in C -- that is, i read through a file and i want to go back to the
> | beginning and read again.  is the only option to close & reopen?
> 
> What C function are you thinking of?  The only ones I know of are
> ftell(3) and fseek(3).  Python file objects have both.
> 
> http://python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html
> 
> | and just from curiosity, why are there no increment/decrement operators,
> | and nothing equivalent to += & its friends?  i'd have thought this
> | would be a faq, but don't find anything about it there.
> 
> |  the second, just that i'm lazy & find having to always type out i =
> |  i+1 annoying.  ;-)
> 
> You're not the only one :-).

thank goodness!  it's lonely out there!

> 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0203.html
> 
> As of python 2.0.  The pep also explains why '++' isn't included (but
> '+=1' isn't any worse, really).

thanks.  i didn't see mention of the increment operator but it's good to know
that the others are there.

mp