On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:47, Bill Janssen wrote: > The "seek" method on RawIOBase is awfully quaint and UNIX-y, what with > the "whence" argument. It could be made considerably more Pythonic by > splitting it into two methods: > > .seek(POS: int) > > where positive values for POS are from the beginning of the file, and > negative values of POS are from the end of the file, and > > .nudge(POS: int) > > where the value of POS, positive or negative, is from the current > location.
Presumably this would go along with introducing a new "wink" method. I wonder what it would do. (Close the file briefly?) -- Gareth McCaughan _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
