[Python-Dev] Can't open standard streams with "a"

[Ned Deily]

On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:06, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> https://bugs.python.org/issue27805
> [...]
> Any chance of this getting into 3.7 or will a fix have to wait for 3.8
> at this point? (I'm guessing "no" as I don't see a patch.)

It seems like most commenters on the issue consider the behavior to be a bug so a case could be made for a fix to go into a maintenance release, not just a feature release.  But, obviously, someone needs to produce a PR for review first.

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