Gareth McCaughan wrote: > 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?)
That's a great idea! It can be called in response to a HUP to rotate log files. me.wink()-ly y'rs -- Benji York http://benjiyork.com _______________________________________________ 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
