Fredrik Lundh wrote: > that's how seek/tell works on text files in today's Python, of course. > if you're writing portable code, you can only seek to the beginning or > end of the file, or to a position returned to you by tell.
True, but with arbitrary stacks of stream-transforming objects the value might need to be even more opaque, since it might need to encapsulate internal states of decoders, etc. Could be very messy. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
