Should I open a bug report for this? Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 19 2007, 14:58:06) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.popen('cat','w') <open file 'cat', mode 'w' at 0x110111990> >>>
Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73054, Jun 1 2009, 10:49:24) [C] on aix5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> os.popen('cat','w') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Python-3.1rc1/Lib/os.py", line 641, in popen return _wrap_close(io.TextIOWrapper(proc.stdin), proc) IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list