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Author	pitrou
Recipients	aeros, benjamin.peterson, docs@python, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, stutzbach
Date	2019-07-26.09:18:18
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I don't know. "whence" is the official name of the argument in the POSIX API: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lseek.html Perhaps "from_what" is assumed to be more understandable by the average reader? Also, os.lseek() uses "how": https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.lseek

I don't know. "whence" is the official name of the argument in the POSIX API:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lseek.html

Perhaps "from_what" is assumed to be more understandable by the average reader?

Also, os.lseek() uses "how":
https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.lseek

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