[Python-Dev] Proposal for new core module: UserFIle

[Keith Dart]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:57, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > > rwio = UserFile.MergedIO(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)
> 
> > > That's not a motivation.  How does writing rwio.readline() and
> > > rw.write() enable your program to do something that wasn't
> > > possible by using sys.stdin and sys.stdout directly?
> > 
> > _MY_ programs could do that, but what if you got some third party
> > module that wanted a single read/write file object and you wanted to
> > use it on stdio?
> 
> > It makes APIs more regular and consistent by requiring only one
> > read/write object. For example, the library method could be passed a
> > single read/write Unix socket, or a read/write TCP socket, or stdio
> > object (MergedIO object).
> 
> Well, the standard way of wrapping a file object around a socket
> pretty much forces you to have separate read and write objects; check
> out the makefile() method. :-)

Ok, ok. Uncle! ;-) Guess what? I have never used MergedIO myself. It was
partly an exercise combining object functionality in an efficient manner
(by re-assigning method objects in the instance's namespace). 
I can drop that one. But... there is a variant in another module that I
use.  

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