MRAB <python <at> mrabarnett.plus.com> writes: > > If the characters are always the same number of bytes) then overwriting > could be possible; that would, however, make the behaviour more > complicated (sometimes you can, sometimes you can't), so it's probably > just simpler to forbid read+write text streams.
Forbidding them would be gratuitous. There are perfectly safe uses, for example if all writes are appends, or if you use a fixed-size encoding. (and besides, it would break backwards compatibility) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
