Fixed in 1.1a1 ============== Issues addressed by following patches are already fixed in IronPython 1.1a1. You are advised to upgrade. `patch-ironpython-file-canseek`__ This patch lets IronPython to avoid accessing Position attribute of underlying stream when it is not seekable. `patch-ironpython-open-unknown-mode`__ This patch lets IronPython to ignore unknown mode characters in open builtin function. `patch-ironpython-re-lastgroup`__ This patch implements lastgroup attribute of match objects produced by regular expression matching. __ https://fepy.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fepy/trunk/patches/1.0.1/patch-ironpython-file-canseek __ https://fepy.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fepy/trunk/patches/1.0.1/patch-ironpython-open-unknown-mode __ https://fepy.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fepy/trunk/patches/1.0.1/patch-ironpython-re-lastgroup