From e741cc607c226c76fef473bf772d42fc63269b9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:45:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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 a3f0242ca9b..204ea809158 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ 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 #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
   parameter was set.
 
diff --git a/Modules/_fileio.c b/Modules/_fileio.c
index 2a86e07e436..2fc6de887a8 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: