STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> One of the places that the 'L' code *is* used is when parsing
> strange C types (like off_t)
It has unexepected consequences. Example:
>>> x=open("x", "w")
>>> x.seek(0.0)
0.0
>>> x.seek(-0.0)
-0.0
>>> x.seek(0.1)
0.1
>>> x.tell()
0
I think that we should just raise an error in Python 3.2 because I consider
this as a bug. It remembers me another bug related to file and float:
http://bugs.python.org/issue5080#msg92400
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