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

[Benji York]

Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> 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?)

That's a great idea!  It can be called in response to a HUP to rotate 
log files.

me.wink()-ly y'rs
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Benji York
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