Pascal Chambon wrote:
-> it seems that the only important matter is : file pointer positions and bytes/characters read should always be the ones that the user expects, as if there were no buffering.
That sounds right to me.
Q from me : What happens in read/write text files, when overwriting a three-bytes character with a single-byte character ?
I think you deserve whatever you get. If you want to be able to overwrite things that accurately, you should be dealing with the stream at the byte level.
Here is a very rough beginning of IOError hierarchy.
+-InvalidFileNameError (filepath max lengths, or "? / : " characters in a windows file name...)
This might be a bit too precise. Unix just has EINVAL, which covers any kind of invalid parameter, not just file names. -- 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
