[Python-Dev] PEP 278 - finished? (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer@conectiva.com
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:56:35 -0300

Hi Gordon!

How can you reliably update a file if there's no obvious mapping between file position and character position?

If you're updating a text file, the relation is probably about line position, not file position. AFAICS, this would only be a problem if one wanted to insert something between CR and LF .

-- Gustavo Niemeyer

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