Antoine Pitrou wrote:
The original docstring for peek() says:...we do at most one raw read to satisfy it. In that light, I'm not sure it's a bug
It may be behaving according to the docs, but is that behaviour useful? Seems to me that if you're asking for n bytes, then it's because you're doing some kind of parsing that requires lookahead, and nothing less than n bytes will do. I think it would be more useful if the "at most one raw read" part were dropped. That would give it the kind of deterministic behaviour generally expected when dealing with buffered streams. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
