New submission from Shane Hathaway:
With Python 2, the following call worked:
open('/dev/stdout', 'a')
Users of Supervisor have been depending on that for a long time.
With Python 3.5, this is what happens:
>>> open('/dev/stdout', 'a')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek
Presumably, this happens because Python 3 opens the file in 'w' mode and seeks
to the end, while Python 2 passed the 'a' flag directly to the underlying C
library; the underlying library is apparently smart enough to treat 'a' and 'w'
identically when opening character device files and FIFOs.
It's a nasty little surprise for those upgrading from Python 2.
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components: IO
messages: 273158
nosy: hathawsh
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: In Python 3, open('/dev/stdout', 'a') raises OSError with errno=ESPIPE
versions: Python 3.5
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