Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I suggest that you try backporting the patch to 2.7 and and/or ask on #4
whether there was a positive reason not to do so (and mention that you opened
this issue to do so).
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Python track
New submission from Rob Malouf:
io.TextIOWrapper.tell() is unusably slow in Python 2.7. This same problem was
introduced in Python 3 and fixed in Python 3.3 (see Issue # 4). Any chance
of getting the fix backported into the Python 2.7 library? It would make it
much easier to modernize Un