[Python-Dev] Proposal for new core module: UserFIle (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Dec 11 17:24:34 EST 2003 

Keith> class TextFile(UserFile):
Keith>      """TextFile(self, name, mode="r", bufsize=-1, linesep=None)
Keith> A file object that handles different line separator
Keith> conventions. This file object's readline() method returns the
Keith> line with trailing line separator stripped, and raises EOFError
Keith> on end of file. The writelines() method will append an
Keith> appropriate line separator when writing. Thus, this file object
Keith> allows reading and writeing non-native text files.
Keith>      """

Is there a reason the universal newline mode doesn't cover this case already?

Keith>      """MergedIO(outfile, infile)
Keith> Combines a write stream and a read stream into one read/write
Keith> object."""

And isn't this subsumed by mode='r+'?

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