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

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Wed Sep 19 21:59:54 CEST 2007


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

For us Unix-heads the notion that a file is anything other than a stream of bytes is rather foreign. I understand that to a large degree if you made the world right for us the tail would be wagging the dog.

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