[Python-3000] New io system and binary data (original) (raw)

Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 21:58:49 CEST 2007


On 9/19/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> Way more programs (especially simple ones) deal with txet > than with binary data.

I'd love to see stats on that, Guido. I'm sure it's true in your immediate vicinity, given what you work on, but I don't believe it's true in general.

Given the context (stdin/stdout/stderr), I'd love to know what you're thinking of here. I can't name a program offhand that wants to operate on binary data via a pipeline. There are a few that can, like gzip, but my impression is that even those aren't often used that way anymore.

-j



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