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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:46:52 -0400
Subject: Re: The pty module, reading from a pty, and Python 2/3
From: David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com>
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in other words, the last two lines of your function should be:

         statinfo = os.stat(filename)
         return child_pty.read(statinfo.st_size)


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