Alex Popescu wrote: > On Jul 11, 4:15 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Forgive my newbie ignorance, but I am wondering why the other method >> > would not work? I mean it may not be very safe, >> > but I guess it may perform a lot better, than having to read the whole >> > file just to cut out the first byte. >> >> Because seeking is not moving? Shifting data bytewise isn't something >> that is supported by the underlying OS filesystems, and thus not >> supported. But replacing bytes with others is. Which seek is for. >> >> Diez > > As far as I know seek is just about positioning and nothing else.
It is. > So, in fact the problem boils down to os support for deleting a bytes. Which there isn't, as I and several others pointed out. And "replacing" is not removing. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
