Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: 2011/6/19 Vinay Sajip <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > > Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> added the comment: > > This seems a bit hacky, and I'm not sure how reliable it is. I added this > after the read_object call: > > if (is_file) { > PyObject * newpos; > int cp, np; > > cp = ftell(rf.fp); > newpos = PyObject_CallMethod(f, "seek", "ii", cp, SEEK_SET);
Why not 0? > assert(newpos != NULL); > np = PyLong_AsLong(newpos); > Py_DECREF(newpos); > assert(cp == np); > } > > When I run the code lots of times, I sometimes get assertion failures at the > > assert(newpos != NULL) That's because the call is failing. Why? > > line. It's not an EOF condition thing, necessarily: I do get expected > behaviour at least sometimes when seeking to the end of file. > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12291> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com