2021-10-31 | Paul Boddie | raw annotate files changeset graph | Introduced a dedicated integer type based on ssize_t. This allows integers to be used for sizes and lengths in native and low-level operations whilst also supporting their storage in the same amount of space as a pointer, thus avoiding the inflation of attributes that might occur if a larger type were chosen. |
1 try: 2 f = open("tests/read_file.py") # this file! 3 except IOError, exc: 4 print "I/O error occurred:", exc.value 5 raise 6 7 try: 8 s = f.read(5) 9 print s # try: 10 s = f.read(49) 11 print s # f = open("tests/read_file.py") # this file! 12 s = f.readline() 13 print s # except IOError, exc: 14 s = f.read() 15 print s 16 finally: 17 f.close()