[Twisted-Python] twisted.lumberjack clobbers existing logs

Itamar Shtull-Trauring twisted at itamarst.org
Mon Feb 25 12:27:33 EST 2002


Andrew Bennetts wrote:


> I considered that, but when would a log file ever want to do otherwise?


"a" also screws up seek()s, which I'll need for the remote log viewing

service. In general, "a" seems like a bad idea since its behavior is
inconsistent.


> I'd be interested to know what a portable way to append to a file is,
> though.


# assuming "file" exists

f = open("file", "r+")

f.seek(0, 2)

see the code I checked in for a complete example.





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