Use `Literal[0, 1, 2]` for seek's "whence" parameter
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Description
This will affect quite a few classes and will possibly have a fairly significant primer impact, but we should at least work towards this goal.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the typeshed stubs for classes exposing seek and inspecting the current whence annotations. Check the primer impact across the affected classes, then confirm that all relevant annotations use the intended Literal values and that the primer remains clean.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100