[Python-3000] I/O stuff

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the current status of I/O in Py3k?

Ping is looking at it. There are quite a few things broken in the
handling of seek/tell on text files.

> Are plans there to implement some if not all of io.py in C. (If not, I can
> work on this.)

IMO the text decoding (and perhaps encoding) should be redone in C,
it's way too slow. I'm not sure if Ping is planning to attack this
too.

> Also, is I/O going to be backported to 2.6?

Yes, but it's probably better to wait until the 3.0 version has stabilized.

PS. Are you at PyCon?

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