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Author Dolda2000
Recipients Dolda2000, benjamin.peterson, hynek, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, stutzbach
Date 2013-12-27.20:37:38
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>So the question is, is the *design* of the IO module that '+' requires a seekable stream the best behavior, or can that constraint be relaxed?

What purpose does that constraint serve? Is there any reason it shouldn't be relaxed?

It seems to work quite well without it in Python 2.
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