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authorHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2005-12-13 16:44:02 (GMT)
committerHye-Shik Chang <hyeshik@gmail.com>2005-12-13 16:44:02 (GMT)
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Add a workaround for file.ftell() to raise IOError for ttys.
ftell(3) on BSD doesn't set errno even for ttys and returns useless values.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Added a workaround for file.tell() to raise IOError when the file
+ is a tty on every platforms as documented in our library reference.
+
- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correct even with unsigned longs