Guido van Rossum wrote: > Maybe (since I fall in that category it doesn't bother me :-), but we > shouldn't replace them with symbolic constants. Having to import > another module to import names like SEEK_CUR and SEEK_END is not > Pythonic. Perhaps the seek() method can grow keyword arguments to > indicate the different types of seekage, or there should be three > separate methods.
As I mentioned in a different part of the thread, I believe seek(), seekby() and rseek() would work as names for the 3 different method approach. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ 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