Illegal seek with os.popen

[Aahz]

In article <7c93031a-235e-4e13-bd37-7c9dbc6e889c at r16g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
 <pruebauno at latinmail.com> wrote:
>Should I open a bug report for this?
>
>Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Sep 19 2007, 14:58:06) [C] on aix5
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import os
>>>> os.popen('cat','w')
><open file 'cat', mode 'w' at 0x110111990>
>
>Python 3.1rc1 (r31rc1:73054, Jun  1 2009, 10:49:24) [C] on aix5
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> os.popen('cat','w')
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/Python-3.1rc1/Lib/os.py", line 641, in popen
>    return _wrap_close(io.TextIOWrapper(proc.stdin), proc)
>IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek

What happens in 2.6 and 3.0?
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