[Python-Dev] io.BufferedReader.peek() Behaviour in python3.1 (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Jun 15 02:34:07 CEST 2009

On 14Jun2009 09:21, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: | 2009/6/14 Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>: | > On 14Jun2009 15:16, I wrote: | > | Is it possible to access the buffer? I see nothing in the docs. | > | > I've just found getvalue() in IOBase. Forget I said anything. | > It seems to be my day for that kind of post:-( || Where are you seeing this? Only BytesIO and StringIO have a getvalue() method.

I had thought I'd traced it by class inheritance. But I got BytesIO and IOBase confused. So: no getvalue then. So probably there is a case for peek0(), which never does a raw read.

Thoughts?

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