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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-01-27 21:48:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-01-27 21:48:46 (GMT) |
| commit | ca5a06aaa968ae767329f8afedbaf17fc337416f (patch) | |
| tree | 1c0f8bfdd0469ce707d41b99371855f6f3f8ae91 /Misc | |
| parent | f3330144679453a66b9baf54963462d8cbd095f8 (diff) | |
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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.
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@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- 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 #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error. - Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when |