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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:
>> The BOM should not be seekeable if the file is opened with the proposed
>> "guess encoding from BOM" mode: it isn't properly part of the stream at
>> all in that case.
>
> This feels about right to me. There are still questions though:
> immediately after opening a file with a BOM, what should .tell()
> return? And regardless of that, .seek(0) should put the file in that
> same initial state.
I think the behavior should be something like:
>>> f = open('/path/to/maybe-BOM-encoded-file', 'r', encoding='BOM')
>>> f.tell()
0L
>>> f.seek(-1)
>>> f.tell() # count of unicode chars in decoded stream
45L
>>> f.seek(0)
>>> f.read(1) # read first unicode char decoded from stream.
'A'
In other words, the BOM is not readable / seekable at all: it is
invisible to the consumer of the decoded stream.
Tres.
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