[Python-Dev] 'text' mode rears its ugly head again (original) (raw)
Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Mon Sep 17 01:01:29 CEST 2007
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I've checked in the asyncore SSL patch, and the Windows buildbots are failing on the HTTPS test. I believe it's due to this insane differentiation between between text files and binary files, a bad idea introduced by Windows and perpetuated (apparently) by Python. I can't believe this wasn't eliminated in py3k!
Anyway, I think what's going on is that the two data blobs the test compares, one read from a file opened with "open(filename, 'r')", and the other a data stream read from an HTTP response "file" returned from urllib.urlopen(), have different line-endings. Of course, this only matters on Windows; on UNIX, the faux differentiation doesn't exist.
Bill
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