[Python-Dev] PEP 246, redux (original) (raw)

Paramjit Oberoi psoberoi at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 22:43:53 CET 2005

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:40:56 +0100, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

So please explain what's imperfect in wrapping a str into a StringIO?

If I understand Philip's argument correctly, the problem is this:

def print_next_line(f: file): print f.readline()

s = "line 1\n" "line 2"

print_next_line(s) print_next_line(s)

This will print "line 1" twice.

-param