On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:44, fuzzylollipop wrote: > reads are not destructive there is nothing to "put back" becuase it is > never removed to begin with. > just change your logic and thing of about what you really need to do
Not true. Character special devices in Unix Named pipes in Windows NT Pipes in Unix Comx: where x is your com port in DOS Sockets gzip and zlib file objects; this file was described as being *so* large that it should not be read into memory. IIRC seek operations are linear; while it is correct you can seek backwards, I don't think you would really want to. Adam DePrince -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list