Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
This is a duplicate of issue25190.
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components: +Library (Lib)
nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> Define StringIO seek offset as code point offset
type: behavior -> enhanceme
random832 added the comment:
That documentation isn't specific to StringIO, and in any case, the limitation
in question isn't documented. The actual implementation is at
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/HEAD/Modules/_io/stringio.c#L484
But if examples would help, they're simple to come
sanket added the comment:
can you provide more details? Python version and code/steps to reproduce.
That'd be more helpful as it seems the methods are already implemented in
latest version https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.TextIOBase.seek
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nosy: +sanketplus
New submission from random832 :
Currently this fails with a (misleading in the case of SEEK_END) "Can't do
nonzero cur-relative seeks" error, but there's no conceptual reason it
shouldn't be possible.
The offset should simply be taken as a character offset, without any pretense
that the "fil
