On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 23:07, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Sounds like you should just submit a bug report (and a PR with a fix if > you feel up to it). Since a relative seek to position p is typically > just implemented as an absolute seek to position f.tell()+p, this looks > like an odd omission, and I can't remember a reason for it. Looking at > the code, the fix looks pretty easy -- update _io_StringIO_seek_impl() > in Modules/_io/stringio.c.
I guess my instinct was to post here first in case there was (or in case someone thought there was) a reason, since it's certainly something that's being specifically disallowed in the code rather than a consequence of something that's not checked properly. Submitted as issue 39365. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KRXGIC4HACJQRRZ4VLT6CRASQDVYJCUF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
