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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jun 16 21:17:09 CEST 2009

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels Acm.Org> writes:

MRAB wrote: > I was thinking along the lines of: > def peek(self, size=None, block=True) > If 'block' is True then return 'size' bytes, unless the end of the > file/stream is reached; if 'block' is False then return up to 'size' > bytes, without blocking.... I tend to prefer zero-ish defaults, how about: def peek(self, size=None, nonblocking=False)

Since blocking and non-blocking are already used to refer to different types of raw streams, another verb should be found for this option.

Antoine.

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