Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: 2011/6/18 Vinay Sajip <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > > Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment: > >> Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: >> > Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment: >> > >> > Sorry I'm being dense, but which file object do you mean? >> >> The python file object. > > Do you mean special-case handling of the circumstance when the file-like > object > being marshalled from is actually a file? The existing code paths (from when > marshal.load expected only to work with Python file objects) use FILE *, and > these are used by other code to read magic numbers etc. I believe. Or perhaps > I'm still misunderstanding what you're getting at.
When python uses dump() or load() with a file object, you can call fileno() (and then fopen?) to use it like a C-file object. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12291> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
