Hi,
Can someone please explain why read() should return an immutable bytes
type instead of a mutable bytearray? It's not like read() from a file
and use buffer as a key in a dict is common. Certainly read() from
file or stream, modify, write is very common. I don't understand why
the common case p
>No, the read() method did not change from the 2.x series. It returns a new
>object on each call.
I think you misunderstand me, but the readinto() method looks like a
perfectly reasonable solution, I didn't realize it existed, as it's
not in the library reference on file objects. Thanks for enlig
I was just browsing what's new in Python 2.5 at
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/
As I was reading I found myself thinking how almost every improvement
made a programming task I commonly bump into a little easier. Take the
with statement, or the new partition method for strings, or the
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