"Donn Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't think Python pretends to have any intentions here, > it has to take what it gets from the C library fopen(3) > function. BSD man pages generally say a+ positions the > stream at end of file (period.) They claim conformance > with the ISO C90 standard. I couldn't dig up a (free) copy > of that document, so don't know what it says on this matter.
STandard C, by Plauger & Brodie says that 'a' plus whatever else means all writes start at the current end-of-file. TJR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
