Jesús Cea Avión <j...@jcea.es> added the comment: Terry, yes, skiping the test in the code will raise an error anyway when doing the real "seek()" OS syscall.
> Is there a reason to say (several times) 'can support' instead of > just 'support'? Do the OSes in question just optionally support > rather than always support? Sometimes depends of the concrete filesystem used, or the concrete OS version. > The first version added: change 'depend of' to 'depend on'. Done in my repository. Thanks. > Could import of io create set of valid_whences for system? > Then check would be "if whence not in valid_whences:" (or C > equivalent). This is far from trivial and I don't see the point if OS "seek()" is going to give an error anyway. The only point would to provide a maybe more useful error message. > In 3.3, unittest has new mock submodule. Perhaps that would help > testing. This is a very thin layer over the OS. Thanks for the feedback. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10142> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
