On Mon, Sep 04, 2006, Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:45:28PM -0700, Aahz wrote: >> >> You want to be able to read the file and write data to it. That argues >> in favor of seek(0) and seek(-1) being the only supported behaviors, >> though. > > Sometimes programs need tell() + seek(). Two examples (very similar, > really). > > Example 1. I have a program, an email robot that receives email(s) and > marks email addresses in a "database" that is actually a text file:
[snip examples of file with email addresses and INN control files] My understanding is that those are in fact binary files that are being treated as line-oriented "text" files. I would agree that there needs to be a way to do line-oriented processing on binary files, but anyone who attempts to process these as text files is foolish at best. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ I support the RKAB _______________________________________________ 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
