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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/io.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/io.py | 5 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index fdacabb..df6393c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -265,12 +265,18 @@ I/O Base Classes interpreted relative to the position indicated by *whence*. Values for *whence* are: - * ``0`` -- start of the stream (the default); *offset* should be zero or positive - * ``1`` -- current stream position; *offset* may be negative - * ``2`` -- end of the stream; *offset* is usually negative + * :data:`SEEK_SET` or ``0`` -- start of the stream (the default); + *offset* should be zero or positive + * :data:`SEEK_CUR` or ``1`` -- current stream position; *offset* may + be negative + * :data:`SEEK_END` or ``2`` -- end of the stream; *offset* is usually + negative Return the new absolute position. + .. versionadded:: 2.7 + The ``SEEK_*`` constants + .. method:: seekable() Return ``True`` if the stream supports random access. If ``False``, @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ import threading # open() uses st_blksize whenever we can DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 8 * 1024 # bytes +# for seek() +SEEK_SET = 0 +SEEK_CUR = 1 +SEEK_END = 2 + # py3k has only new style classes __metaclass__ = type |