Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Didn't Victor say that only one seek at the end is necessary per > pickle? If this is the case, I don't think expensive seeks will be an > issue.
If you are unpickling from a multi-megabyte gzip file and the seek at the end makes you uncompress all the gzip file again, it can certainly be a problem. Another issue with seeking only at the end is that it would make readline() quite more complicated. And, apparently, readline() is not only used on protocol 0 but also on binary protocols. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
