commit 44f5f8fb26185b211d50fd9501ba42446505a8d7
author Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Tue Mar 20 15:51:14 2001 +0000
committer Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> Tue Mar 20 15:51:14 2001 +0000
tree ee811b61d288819200613f55a11ea118bcef6e0e
parent d3f193fe9d1edd99b69b829edb8e8e981c0d0fa6

Bug #409419: delete seek() and tell() methods, so callers can use getattr()
    to check for them (instead of calling them and then ignoring an
    IOError)

Lib/gzip.py

diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index 6cb90ac..79ca205 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -267,12 +267,6 @@
     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