[issue28340] TextIOWrapper.tell extremely slow

2016-10-07 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I suggest that you try backporting the patch to 2.7 and and/or ask on #4 whether there was a positive reason not to do so (and mention that you opened this issue to do so). -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python track

[issue28340] TextIOWrapper.tell extremely slow

2016-10-02 Thread Rob Malouf
New submission from Rob Malouf: io.TextIOWrapper.tell() is unusably slow in Python 2.7. This same problem was introduced in Python 3 and fixed in Python 3.3 (see Issue # 4). Any chance of getting the fix backported into the Python 2.7 library? It would make it much easier to modernize Un