On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 14:15, Jake McGuire<mcgu...@google.com> wrote: > The python documentation says that the read() and write() methods on array > objects have been deprecated since 1.5.1. I assume this is because their > semantics are almost the exact opposite of read() and write() on a file-like > object; array.read() reads data from a file into the array and array.write() > writes data from the array to a file. > This causes fatal confusion in code that checks for the existence of read() > and write() to determine whether an object is file-like. Code such as > httplib. > What is the timeline for removing these methods from array? It has been 11 > years now.
They are gone from Python 3.x, so they have been removed where it counts. Bothering with 2.x is not worth it at this point. _______________________________________________ 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
