Re: [Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:17:58 -0400 Ned Deily wrote: > On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:06, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > [...] > > https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 > > [...] > > Any chance of this getting into 3.7 or will a fix have to wait for 3.8 > > at this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.)

Re: [Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:06, Skip Montanaro wrote: > [...] > https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 > [...] > Any chance of this getting into 3.7 or will a fix have to wait for 3.8 > at this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.) It seems like most commenters on the issue consider the behavi

[Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

In Python 2 you can open the standard output and error streams in append mode, despite the fact that they aren't technically seekable. This changed somewhere along the way in (I think) io.open. There's an open bug report about this: https://bugs.python.org/issue27805 I just stumbled on it porting