-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But my main objection to suggesting that these constants ought to be > used is that open() is a built-in but you would have to import os to > be able to call the seek method on the object it returns. > > If we want to make the seek API more 21st century, why not use keyword > arguments? Or put the constants on class attributes. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRZWRM3EjvBPtnXfVAQLWdwQAmrt5ncAhFIxCK2Tm72g90P9qckVrkdAt odvZ+fw8RFrKs3MUpsP2HtfHWHrouC6SHQCXoU63msfgy52vO4M9rG3NLN5Hi0KK tU4J9pkSqqi+Jfu4LvCs+ouURqxTbGicyMBUuw54hQWqg0bxvYvjEyuC1NFltcV6 HJ2qElSTOw0= =LAq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com