[Twisted-Python] Re: plus mode was Re: how winnt fileops workand what to do about it

[Paul G]

----- 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