From 6976104a36aa426bcf23b2e4b7e7a706f25beeeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadeem Vawda Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:47:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] #18430: Document that peek() may change the position of the underlying file for the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes. --- Doc/library/bz2.rst | 5 +++++ Doc/library/gzip.rst | 5 +++++ Doc/library/lzma.rst | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/bz2.rst b/Doc/library/bz2.rst index 95a5abb75db..b79bccdb31e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/bz2.rst +++ b/Doc/library/bz2.rst @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads. byte of data will be returned (unless at EOF). The exact number of bytes returned is unspecified. + .. note:: While calling :meth:`peek` does not change the file position of + the :class:`BZ2File`, it may change the position of the underlying file + object (e.g. if the :class:`BZ2File` was constructed by passing a file + object for *filename*). + .. versionadded:: 3.3 .. versionchanged:: 3.1 diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst index ec16f6ae88b..354deed921a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst +++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst @@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ The module defines the following items: the call. The number of bytes returned may be more or less than requested. + .. note:: While calling :meth:`peek` does not change the file position of + the :class:`GzipFile`, it may change the position of the underlying + file object (e.g. if the :class:`GzipFile` was constructed with the + *fileobj* parameter). + .. versionadded:: 3.2 .. versionchanged:: 3.1 diff --git a/Doc/library/lzma.rst b/Doc/library/lzma.rst index da4657551e2..07b69eb772a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/lzma.rst +++ b/Doc/library/lzma.rst @@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ Reading and writing compressed files byte of data will be returned, unless EOF has been reached. The exact number of bytes returned is unspecified (the *size* argument is ignored). + .. note:: While calling :meth:`peek` does not change the file position of + the :class:`LZMAFile`, it may change the position of the underlying + file object (e.g. if the :class:`LZMAFile` was constructed by passing a + file object for *filename*). + Compressing and decompressing data in memory --------------------------------------------