Re: seek operation in python

From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: seek operation in python
Organization	Decebal Computing
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Date	2015-04-30 22:50 +0200
Message-ID	<87r3r1s5ln.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> (permalink)

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Op Thursday 30 Apr 2015 21:38 CEST schreef Larry Hudson:

> On 04/30/2015 01:06 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I wrote a module where I have:
>> def get_indexed_message(message_filename, index):
>> """
>> Get index message from a file, where 0 gets the first message
>> """
>>
>> return open(expanduser(message_filename),
>> 'r').readlines()[index].rstrip()
>>
> Very minor nit unrelated to the file closing question:
> This would be a good place to give index a default value...
>
> def get_indexed_message(message_filename, index=0):

Why would you want this? I think the index should always be defined.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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  Re: seek operation in python Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 14:17 -0400
    Re: seek operation in python siva sankari R <buddingrose11@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 11:26 -0700
      Re: seek operation in python Billy Earney <billy.earney@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:42 -0500
      Re: seek operation in python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-04-29 21:53 +0100
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  Re: seek operation in python MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-04-29 19:50 +0100
  Re: seek operation in python John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-04-29 18:53 +0000
  Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 10:33 +1000
    Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 08:27 +0200
      Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 17:33 +1000
        Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 10:06 +0200
          Re: seek operation in python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-30 04:31 -0400
            Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 11:06 +0200
              Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 19:39 +1000
          Re: seek operation in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-30 12:38 -0700
            Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 22:50 +0200
              Re: seek operation in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-30 19:42 -0700
  Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 14:31 +0200

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