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authorNadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda@gmail.com>2013-12-08 18:47:22 (GMT)
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#18430: Document that peek() may change the position of the underlying file for
the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
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@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ Reading and writing compressed files
byte of data will be returned, unless EOF has been reached. The exact
number of bytes returned is unspecified (the *size* argument is ignored).
+ .. note:: While calling :meth:`peek` does not change the file position of
+ the :class:`LZMAFile`, it may change the position of the underlying
+ file object (e.g. if the :class:`LZMAFile` was constructed by passing a
+ file object for *filename*).
+
Compressing and decompressing data in memory
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