> I'm not convinced. Where would you ever care about reading a file in > N-bytes chucks?
This was once a standard paradigm for IBM mainframe files. I vaguely remember having to specify the block/record size when opening such files. I have no idea of today's practice though. Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
