Bug #409419: delete seek() and tell() methods, so callers can use getattr()

akuchling · akuchling · commit 44f5f8fb2618 · 2001-03-20T15:51:14.000Z
to check for them (instead of calling them and then ignoring an
    IOError)
diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -267,12 +267,6 @@ def __del__(self):
     def flush(self):
         self.fileobj.flush()
 
-    def seek(self):
-        raise IOError, 'Random access not allowed in gzip files'
-
-    def tell(self):
-        raise IOError, 'I won\'t tell() you for gzip files'
-
     def isatty(self):
         return 0
 
