Using: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk  @  61127
OS Name:    Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

I would like to report a positive follow-up on this issue.  The output I
received was as follows, indicating this specific issue may be resolved.
 The resulting bigfile produced from the test totaled 11.5 GB
(12,382,502,912 bytes).

python bigfiletest1.py
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