On 9/05/22 7:47 am, Marco Sulla wrote:
It will fail if the contents is not ASCII.
Why?
For some encodings, if you seek to an arbitrary byte position and
then read, it may *appear* to succeed but give you complete gibberish.
Your method might work for a certain subset of encodings (those that
are self-synchronising) but it won't work for arbitrary encodings.
Given that limitation, I don't think it's reliable enough to include
in the standard library.
--
Greg
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
