Bug on Python2.3.4 [FreeBSD]?

[Terry Reedy]

"Donn Cave" <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote in message 
news:donn-BC56BC.16011812082005 at gnus01.u.washington.edu...
> I don't think Python pretends to have any intentions here,
> it has to take what it gets from the C library fopen(3)
> function.  BSD man pages generally say a+ positions the
> stream at end of file (period.)  They claim conformance
> with the ISO C90 standard.  I couldn't dig up a (free) copy
> of that document, so don't know what it says on this matter.

STandard C, by Plauger & Brodie says that 'a' plus whatever else means all 
writes start at the current end-of-file.

TJR