[issue46375] io.BytesIO does not have peek()

Marcel Martin added the comment: I opened a PR, but I now wonder whether the missing peek() is by design. First, I noticed that instead of using BytesIO directly, I can wrap the instance in an io.BufferedReader, which does have peek(). (It’s just a bit inconvenient.) The second thing is that

[issue46375] io.BytesIO does not have peek()

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[issue46375] io.BytesIO does not have peek()

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[issue46375] io.BytesIO does not have peek()

New submission from Marcel Martin : It would be great to be able to use peek() on BytesIO objects. I have a function that gets passed a file-like object and uses peek() on it. This works for nearly all types of files relevant in my library, except BytesIO instances (which I use during testing