Christopher Barker writes: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 6:07 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < > turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Yah, but you also get > > > > > outfile.seek(some_random_place) > > outfile += something > > > > Is that not exactly the same as what you can do with .write() now? Yes. But it flies in the face of the normal semantics of str '+=' (concatenate, not overwrite) while it's exactly how seekable writable streams have worked since the '70s. I just don't ever want to see that, but I know I will. YMMV, I think it's too high a price to pay for syntactic sugar. I wouldn't have the same objection to a standalone StringBuilder class (I have other objections to that, see Paul Moore's post on multiple TOOWTDI). _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5HXF6ROFB76GW3AB36DCA7BSCZZL3GQ2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
