Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: Perhaps the stdio requirement was based on an underlying OS (*nix?) requirement, which io has to fulfill even if it does not use stdio.
Stdio was, I presume, optimized for speed. In the relatively rare case of mixed read/write, it *should* put the burden on the programmer. Python is a bit different. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12215> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
