tests/filterpyflakes.py

posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode

Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.

Consider the program:

   #include <stdio.h>

   int main() {
     FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
     fprintf(f, "narf\n");
     fclose(f);

     f = fopen("narf", "a");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
     fprintf(f, "troz\n");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));

     return 0;
   }

on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints

   5
   10

but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints

   0
   10

By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:

> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().

in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Filter output by pyflakes to control which warnings we check

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import re
import sys

lines = []
for line in sys.stdin:
    # We blacklist tests that are too noisy for us
    pats = [
        r"undefined name 'WindowsError'",
        r"redefinition of unused '[^']+' from line",
        # for cffi, allow re-exports from pure.*
        r"cffi/[^:]*:.*\bimport \*' used",
        r"cffi/[^:]*:.*\*' imported but unused",
    ]

    keep = True
    for pat in pats:
        if re.search(pat, line):
            keep = False
            break # pattern matches
    if keep:
        fn = line.split(':', 1)[0]
        f = open(fn)
        data = f.read()
        f.close()
        if 'no-' 'check-code' in data:
            continue
        lines.append(line)

for line in lines:
    sys.stdout.write(line)
print()