Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels <at> Acm.Org> writes: > > MRAB wrote: > > I was thinking along the lines of: > > def peek(self, size=None, block=True) > > If 'block' is True then return 'size' bytes, unless the end of the > > file/stream is reached; if 'block' is False then return up to 'size' > > bytes, without blocking.... > > I tend to prefer zero-ish defaults, how about: > def peek(self, size=None, nonblocking=False)
Since blocking and non-blocking are already used to refer to different types of raw streams, another verb should be found for this option. Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
