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r77895 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-31 23:47:27 +0100 (dim., 31 janv. 2010) | 12 lines
Merged revisions 77890 via svnmerge from
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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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r77896 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-02-01 00:12:29 +0100 (lun., 01 févr. 2010) | 3 lines
r77895 broke doctest.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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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 #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
- Issue #7785: Don't accept bytes in FileIO.write().