> goto(pos) # absolute > > move(incr:int) # relative to current position > > negative numbers can be interpreted naturally; for move they go > backwards, and for goto they count from the end. > > This would require either a length, or a special value (None?) for at > least one of Start and End, because 0 == -0.
I like this idea. Define START and END as values in the "file" class. > I'm not sure exactly how unicode > characters even should be counted, without a normalization promise. No one's sure. That's why "read(N: int) => str" doesn't make sense. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
