New submission from gumpy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Currently io.IOBase.seek(offset[, whence]) uses magic numbers for the second argument. Since this is essentially identical the C function fseek I think adding the same "constants" that C uses (SEEK_SET=0, SEEK_CUR=1, SEEK_END=2) may be worth considering.
These values could be added to the global scope in the io module: f = io.open('foo', 'rb') f.seek(0, io.SEEK_END) If added to the io.IOBase class then I believe they'd be accessible without importing io: f = open('foo', 'rb') f.seek(0, f.SEEK_END) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 77213 nosy: gumpy severity: normal status: open title: add SEEK_* values to io and/or io.IOBase type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4572> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com