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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2003-10-18 09:38:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2003-10-18 09:38:01 (GMT) |
| commit | 849a972f35a6740c4784c80a8271af9f5592d7b6 (patch) | |
| tree | adbffae5b8d729458196b5ca56eb2f88c009396c /Objects/fileobject.c | |
| parent | ad3fc44ccb40f2ad33c0d09f5a2dfbd4feb442eb (diff) | |
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Patch #809535: Mention behaviour of seek on text files. Backported to 2.3.
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diff --git a/Objects/fileobject.c b/Objects/fileobject.c index 6f90fb9..ff66117 100644 --- a/Objects/fileobject.c +++ b/Objects/fileobject.c @@ -1613,7 +1613,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(seek_doc, "0 (offset from start of file, offset should be >= 0); other values are 1\n" "(move relative to current position, positive or negative), and 2 (move\n" "relative to end of file, usually negative, although many platforms allow\n" -"seeking beyond the end of a file).\n" +"seeking beyond the end of a file). If the file is opened in text mode,\n" +"only offsets returned by tell() are legal. Use of other offsets causes\n" +"undefined behavior." "\n" "Note that not all file objects are seekable."); |