Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > If being pretty is the only reason for this choice, then I think that > documenting the method as > > method:: read([n]) > > is simpler and cleaner . > > But you've got much more experience than me, so I won't argue any further :-)
There are contexts where it is easier to give the default argument than call the method without argument, though, and that's where I find None more intuitive than -1 :) Arguably it's not very important, though. > > Can I use _PyIO_ConvertSsize_t? Or should I duplicate its > > functionality in mmapmodule.c? > > I let Antoine answer that. I'm not sure. This would require including iomodule.h, which is supposed to be private to the _io module. I think duplicating it is fine, since the code is probably simple anyway (I'm too lazy to take a look right now :-)). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
