[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed Feb 15 19:59:44 CET 2006


If we go with two functions, I'd much rather hang them off of the file type object then add two new builtins. I really do think file.bytes() and file.text() (a.k.a. open.bytes() and open.text()) is better than opentext() or openbytes().

+1.

The default behavior of the current open() in opening files as text is particularly grating. This would make things much clearer.

Bill



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