[issue24940] RotatingFileHandler uses tell in non-binary mode to determine size of the file in bytes

Changes by Vinay Sajip : -- stage: -> resolved status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24940] RotatingFileHandler uses tell in non-binary mode to determine size of the file in bytes

Vinay Sajip added the comment: But this is a change in behaviour which might cause people a problem. The way it is now, the size may be approximate rather than exact, which is reasonable for the use case. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24940] RotatingFileHandler uses tell in non-binary mode to determine size of the file in bytes

Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- nosy: +vinay.sajip ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24940 ___ ___

[issue24940] RotatingFileHandler uses tell in non-binary mode to determine size of the file in bytes

New submission from Ilya Kulakov: According to the most recent documentation: Return the current stream position as an opaque number. The number does not usually represent a number of bytes in the underlying binary storage. Therefore stream should be opened as 'ab' by using value of the