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  r68835 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-21 01:45:36 +0100 (mer., 21 janv. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
  do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
  file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
  traditional 2.x file object.
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 Library
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+- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
+  do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
+  file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
+  traditional 2.x file object.
+
 - Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
   opened with other applications.