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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-01-31 22:47:27 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77890 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-31 23:26:04 +0100 (dim., 31 janv. 2010) | 7 lines - Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon. ........
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+- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
+ file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
+ file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
+ ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
+
- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
:class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
an archive. The new implementation is significantly faster and can