On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:26:55 -0700, Hasan Diwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 08/09/06, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Perhaps it would be good to drop those magic numbers (0, 1, 2) for >>seek() ? They don't really help readibility except perhaps for people >>who still do a lot of C ;) > >+1 >If we can't don't want to eliminate the "magic numbers" entirely, perhaps we >could assign symbolic constants to them? fileobj.seek(fileobj.START) for >instance?
Note that Python is _worse_ than C here. C has named constants for these, Python does not expose them. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ 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
