From dc92b491038da118651d5ecdfbe9c5171b51305d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bwarsaw
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:04:43 +0000
Subject: AppendMessage(): Since we can't portably test the numeric/symbolic
 error code raised by seek()ing before the end of a non-existant or zero
 length file, we simply ignore all IOErrors that can result.

---
 Mailman/Mailbox.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Mailman/Mailbox.py')

diff --git a/Mailman/Mailbox.py b/Mailman/Mailbox.py
index 4edad7e78..3eb47d6c3 100644
--- a/Mailman/Mailbox.py
+++ b/Mailman/Mailbox.py
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ class Mailbox(mailbox.UnixMailbox):
         try:
             self.fp.seek(-1, 2)
         except IOError, e:
-            if e.errno <> errno.EINVAL: raise
-            # the file must be empty
+            # Assume the file is empty.  We can't portably test the error code
+            # returned, since it differs per platform.
+            pass
         else:
             if self.fp.read(1) <> '\n':
                 self.fp.write('\n')
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