>No, the read() method did not change from the 2.x series. It returns a new
>object on each call.
I think you misunderstand me, but the readinto() method looks like a
perfectly reasonable solution, I didn't realize it existed, as it's
not in the library reference on file objects. Thanks for enlig
Hi,
Can someone please explain why read() should return an immutable bytes
type instead of a mutable bytearray? It's not like read() from a file
and use buffer as a key in a dict is common. Certainly read() from
file or stream, modify, write is very common. I don't understand why
the common case p
I was just browsing what's new in Python 2.5 at
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/
As I was reading I found myself thinking how almost every improvement
made a programming task I commonly bump into a little easier. Take the
with statement, or the new partition method for strings, or the
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