Greg Ewing wrote: >> (you completely missed the point -- today's print mechanism works on *any* >> object >> that implements a "write" method, no just file objects. saying that "oh, >> all you need is >> to add a method" or "here's a nice mixin" doesn't give you a print >> replacement) > > While we're on the subject, in Py3k I'd like to see > readline(), readlines(), etc. removed from file objects > and made builtin functions instead. It should only > be necessary to implement read() and write() to get > a file-like object having equal status with all > others.
maybe some variation of http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0246.html combined with "default adapters" could come in handy here ? </F> _______________________________________________ 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