Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I'm quite surprised it wasn't already covered by the test suite :S

Probably an oversight. Do you want to add some tests?

> Should a flush on a closed stream fail (at the moment sometimes it
> does, sometimes doesn't) ?

It probably should, yes.

> Why is sometimes ValueError used when I'd rather expect an IOError ?

Because it's not an IO error at all. No I/O occurs. You are just using
the file wrongly (or the wrong file), hence the ValueError.

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