On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > TextIOBase: this seems an odd mix of high-level and low-level. I'd > remove "seek", "tell", "read", and "write". Remember that in Python, > mixins actually work, so that you can provide a file object that > combines several different I/O classes.
Huh? All those operations you want to remove are entirely necessary for a number of applications. I'm not sure what you meant about mixins? > And The Java-ish notion in > TextIOBase.read(), that you can specify a count for the number of > characters (or is that the number of UTF-8 bytes, etc... -- rich > source of subtle bugs), just doesn't work in practice. It doesn't work? Why not? Of course read() should take the number of characters as a parameter, not number of bytes. > And the > "codecs" module already provides a way of doing this, for those who > feel the need. Stick to just "readline" and "writeline" for text I/O. Ah, not everyone dealing with text is dealing with line-delimited text, you know... James _______________________________________________ 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
