Re: [Python-Dev] TextIOWrapper.tell()

2010-06-30 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:03:49 -0700 > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> > Also, please note that values used by seek() and tell() on >> > text I/O are "opaque cookies". While they can happen to match the >> > raw binary file position, it is a m

[Python-Dev] TextIOWrapper.tell()

2010-06-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:03:49 -0700 Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Also, please note that values used by seek() and tell() on > > text I/O are "opaque cookies". While they can happen to match the > > raw binary file position, it is a mere coincidence (or an > > implementation detail, at your will).