Illegal seek with os.popen

[Aahz]

[posted & e-mailed]

In article <5edde6ee-4446-4f53-91ee-ad3aea4b5603 at q37g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
 <pruebauno at latinmail.com> wrote:
>
>Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Jun  4 2009, 16:07:22) [C] on aix5
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import os
>>>> os.popen('cat','w')
><os._wrap_close object at 0x1103e5748>
>
>So it seems to be something in 3.1 that causes it to fail.
>BTW it is not like I use os.popen a lot. I found this problem while
>trying to use help().

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Thanks!
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