Terry Reedy wrote: >>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. > Indeed. Something like:
SYSIN DD *,BLKSIZE=80 IIRC (which I may well not do after thirty years or so). People used to solve generic programming problems in JCL just for the hell of it. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
