[Python-3000] On PEP 3116: new I/O base classes

[Gareth McCaughan]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:47, Bill Janssen wrote:

> The "seek" method on RawIOBase is awfully quaint and UNIX-y, what with
> the "whence" argument.  It could be made considerably more Pythonic by
> splitting it into two methods:
>
>   .seek(POS: int)
>
> where positive values for POS are from the beginning of the file, and
> negative values of POS are from the end of the file, and
>
>   .nudge(POS: int)
>
> where the value of POS, positive or negative, is from the current
> location.

Presumably this would go along with introducing a new "wink" method.
I wonder what it would do. (Close the file briefly?)

-- 
Gareth McCaughan