[Python-Dev] mmap feature or bug? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sun Dec 19 17:34:55 CET 2004

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> writes:

Quick questions: Is mmap's inability to be subclassed a feature or bug?

Like Martin said, a missing feature. I'd also quite like the mmap module to have a C API, but as my use case is especially evil (

http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/PPY.html

) I'm not going to push that hard :)

Is one's inability to use a = mmapinstance.setslice;a(1,2,'a') (and others) a feature or bug?

I'm not entirely sure about this, though. Does

mmapinstance.setitem(slice(1,2), 'a')

work? AIUI setslice and getslice are out of favour these days (not sure though).

Any patch to fix one of these would probably also fix the other almost as a sside-effect...

Cheers, mwh

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