From 19fec8b58fe46de77c7d12c91fe198584da5d0c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:56:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 68835 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r68835 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-21 01:45:36 +0100 (mer., 21 janv. 2009) | 6 lines

  Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
  do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
  file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
  traditional 2.x file object.
........
---
 Lib/test/test_io.py | 11 +++++++++++
 Misc/NEWS           |  5 +++++
 Modules/_fileio.c   | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 967018ea453..f0b38b6f7a9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -232,6 +232,17 @@ class IOTest(unittest.TestCase):
             else:
                 self.fail("1/0 didn't raise an exception")
 
+    # issue 5008
+    def test_append_mode_tell(self):
+        with io.open(test_support.TESTFN, "wb") as f:
+            f.write(b"xxx")
+        with io.open(test_support.TESTFN, "ab", buffering=0) as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 3)
+        with io.open(test_support.TESTFN, "ab") as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 3)
+        with io.open(test_support.TESTFN, "a") as f:
+            self.assert_(f.tell() > 0)
+
     def test_destructor(self):
         record = []
         class MyFileIO(io.FileIO):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 30c3a0f7e30..ca5eef1dcb1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
+  do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
+  file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
+  traditional 2.x file object.
+
 - Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
   opened with other applications.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_fileio.c b/Modules/_fileio.c
index 0f09ecd8a3b..fbe4189a8da 100644
--- a/Modules/_fileio.c
+++ b/Modules/_fileio.c
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ PyTypeObject PyFileIO_Type;
 
 #define PyFileIO_Check(op) (PyObject_TypeCheck((op), &PyFileIO_Type))
 
+static PyObject *
+portable_lseek(int fd, PyObject *posobj, int whence);
+
 /* Returns 0 on success, errno (which is < 0) on failure. */
 static int
 internal_close(PyFileIOObject *self)
@@ -296,6 +299,16 @@ fileio_init(PyObject *oself, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 			goto error;
 	}
 
+	if (append) {
+		/* For consistent behaviour, we explicitly seek to the
+		   end of file (otherwise, it might be done only on the
+		   first write()). */
+		PyObject *pos = portable_lseek(self->fd, NULL, 2);
+		if (pos == NULL)
+			goto error;
+		Py_DECREF(pos);
+	}
+
 	goto done;
 
  error: