Antti Haapala added the comment: Yeah, it definitely is a bug in CPython. open(mode='a') should always append to the end of the given file.
If you're writing an append-only text log to some file-like object, that's the mode you use, not some version/platform/filesystem specific voodoo to find out what's the least incorrect way to work around Python implementation deficiencies. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27805> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com