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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-02-04 20:17:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-02-04 20:17:40 (GMT) |
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Merged revisions 88334 via svnmerge from
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r88334 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-02-04 21:11:11 +0100 (ven., 04 févr. 2011) | 3 lines
Mention that seek and tell over a TextIOWrapper can be very slow.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 9fb241d..bbe5112 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -796,6 +796,8 @@ Text I/O over a binary storage (such as a file) is significantly slower than binary I/O over the same storage, because it implies conversions from unicode to binary data using a character codec. This can become noticeable if you handle huge amounts of text data (for example very large log files). +Also, :meth:`TextIOWrapper.tell` and :meth:`TextIOWrapper.seek` are both +quite slow due to the reconstruction algorithm used. :class:`StringIO`, however, is a native in-memory unicode container and will exhibit similar speed to :class:`BytesIO`. |