[Python-checkins] commit of r41602 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_file.py

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> I think that defeats the purpose of the test; f.seek(-1) raises
> IOError on a regular seekable file as well.

The purpose of the test is to get some coverage of the "an error
occurred" code in fileobject.c, which seems worthwhile to me, and
f.seek(-1) is probably a fine way of doing that.  f.tell(), now, I am
not sure about.

Cheers,
mwh

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