[Python-Dev] TextIO seek and tell cookies

[Nick Coghlan]

On 26 September 2016 at 10:21, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2016-09-26 00:21, Ben Leslie wrote:
>> Are there any downsides to this? I've made some progress developing a
>> patch to change this functionality. Is it worth polishing and
>> submitting?
>>
> An alternative might be a subclass of int.

It could make sense to use a subclass of int that emitted deprecation
warnings for integer arithmetic, and then eventually disallowed it
entirely.

Cheers,
Nick.

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