python seek write,seek（），然后是read（），然后是python中的write（）

When running the following python code:

>>> f = open(r"myfile.txt", "a+")

>>> f.seek(-1,2)

>>> f.read()

'a'

>>> f.write('\n')

I get the following (helpful) exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

IOError: [Errno 0] Error

The same thing happens when openning with "r+".

Is this supposed to fail? Why?

Edit:

Obviously, this is just an example, not what I am actually trying to execute. My actual goal was to verify that the files ends with "\n", or add one, before adding the new lines.

I am working under Windows XP, and they problem exists in both Python 2.5 and Python 2.6.

I managed to bypass the problem by calling seek() again:

f = open(r"myfile.txt", "a+")

f.seek(-1,2)

f.read()

'a'

f.seek(-10,2)

f.write('\n')

The actual parameters of the 2nd seek call don't seem to matter.

解决方案

This appears to be a Windows-specific problem - see http://bugs.python.org/issue1521491 for a similar issue.

f.seek(f.tell())

between the read() and write() calls.