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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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+- 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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 - Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
   parameter was set.