On 3/12/07, Mark Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hopefully I'll have something in the next week or so. Daniel and
> Mike - please let me know if I'm overlapping with anything you're
> working on - I don't want to tread on anyone's toes.
I'm not doing any work on this at the moment, but feel
On 3/12/07, Mark Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I suspect that BufferedReader needs some kind of readuntil()
> method, so that (at least for sane encodings like utf-8) each line is
> read via a single readuntil() followed by a decode() call for the
> entire line.
+1
.readuntil() would
On 12 Mar 2007, at 20:18, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I would love for you to start working on this. Let me know off-line if
> you need more guidance (but CC Daniel and Mike so they know what's
> going on).
Great! I'll start off by working up a patch that implements any easy
missing stuff from ht
On 3/12/07, Mark Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2007, at 17:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Thanks! This is a very interesting idea, I'd like to keep this
> > around somehow.
>
> Thanks for the positive feedback - much appreciated.
>
> > I also see that you noticed a problem with te
On 12 Mar 2007, at 17:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Thanks! This is a very interesting idea, I'd like to keep this
> around somehow.
Thanks for the positive feedback - much appreciated.
> I also see that you noticed a problem with text I/O in the current
> design; there's no easy way to impleme
Thanks! This is a very interesting idea, I'd like to keep this around somehow.
I also see that you noticed a problem with text I/O in the current
design; there's no easy way to implement readline() efficiently. I
want readline() to be as efficient as possible -- "for line in "
should *scream*, lik
As an experiment with the new IO library (http://docs.google.com/Doc?
id=dfksfvqd_1cn5g5m), I added support for walking through the lines
of a file backwards using the reversed() iterator:
for line in reversed(open(path)):
...
It works by scanning backwards through the file a bl
