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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 19 20:26:03 CEST 2007


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

This really isn't a UTF-8 problem. It is the problem with file opens defaulting to "text" mode instead of "binary" mode rearing its ugly head again.

You can repeat that until you're blue in the face but it's not going to change. Way more programs (especially simple ones) deal with txet than with binary data.

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