Re: How to bypass Windows 'cooking' the I/O? (One more time, please) II

2008-07-07 Thread norseman
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:03:10 -0700, norseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > Normal file I/O sequence: > > fp = open(target, 'wb') > > fp.seek(-1, 2) > > fp.write(record) > Except it doesn't do that in Windows. See belo

Re: How to bypass Windows 'cooking' the I/O? (One more time, please) II

2008-07-07 Thread Iain King
On Jul 7, 10:18 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:03:10 -0700, norseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > >  > Normal file I/O sequence: > > >  > fp = open(target, 'wb') > > >  > fp.seek(-1, 2) > > >  > fp.write(record

How to bypass Windows 'cooking' the I/O? (One more time, please) II

2008-07-07 Thread norseman
I know I saw the answer recently, as in since February '08, but I can't re-find it. :( I tried the mail archives and such and my own collections but the piece I saw still eludes me. Problem: (sos=same old s...) Microsoft insists the world work it's way even when the Microsoft way was pro