[Twisted-Python] Re: plus mode was Re: how winnt fileops workand what to do about it
Paul G
paul-lists at perforge.com
Sat Dec 31 16:58:34 EST 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Paul Calderone" <exarkun at divmod.com>
To: "Twisted general discussion" <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] Re: plus mode was Re: how winnt fileops
workand what to do about it
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:33:46 -0500, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:21:45 -0500, Paul G <paul-lists at perforge.com>
>>wrote:
>>>2. say that across all platforms python supports given functionality on,
>>>said functionality needs to have functionally identical results given
>>>identical input. in this case, the flush+seek workaround needs to be
>>>utilized on all cpythons linked with msvscrt in a manner transparent to
>>>the user.
>>
>>It seems like we can work around this more easily than that, considering
>>that flush and seek are available from Twisted; the file object causing
>>problems in the tests is being returned from the open() method of a
>>FilePath object, if I understand it correctly. FilePath could include the
>>workaround far in advance of Python deciding to.
>>
>
> Quite so. I definitely think this is a bug in Python though. Someone
> should open a ticket in the Python bug tracker. Cory?
cory,
i'll be happy to see if i can dig up an msdn entry documenting this so you
can include it in the bug report. ping me if you need me to do it.
-p
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