[Python-Dev] What is the status of file.readinto? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Aug 13 04:28:44 CEST 2006

On 8/12/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I can only guess why it may go away; my guess it will go away when the buffer interface is removed from Python (then it becomes unimplementable).

In Py3k, the I/O APIs will be redesigned, especially the binary ones. My current idea is to have read() on a binary file return a bytes object. If readinto() continues to be necessary, please make sure the Py3k list (python-3000 at python.org) knows about your use case. We aren't quite writing up the I/O APIs in PEP-form, but when we do, that would be the right time to speak up.

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