ungetc in python

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri Jan 31 08:15:59 EST 2003


Scott Fenton wrote:

> Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew if there was
> an equivilant of ungetc in Python. I Googled for it
> and didn't find anything, and I need it for a parser
> I'm working on.

Not natively, though it would be quite straightforward to write your own
wrapper around a file object that implemented a pushback ability.

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