[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other thing I wanted to comment on is the default value for n in the > various read methods. In some places it's -1 (why not zero? *),
Maybe because reading 0 bytes already has a well-defined (if not particularly useful) meaning? You probably wouldn't use it explicitly, but it could arise as the result of a calculation, and it would then need to be special-cased if it had a reserved meaning. > (*) A few days ago at work I saw someone check in a piece of code with > > f.read(-1) That does look strange. Maybe the result of someone reading the docs and failing to notice that there was an easier spelling. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
