From: Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:26:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport checkin:
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.1c2~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a20d4bd31167d43331921833cb54b93d5423f83;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport checkin:
Add default value for "whence" argument.
---

diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index 092da0c7d759..022b51b23a4d 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ class StreamReader(Codec):
         self.charbuffer = u""
         self.atcr = False
 
-    def seek(self, offset, whence):
+    def seek(self, offset, whence=0):
         """ Set the input stream's current position.
 
             Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.