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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Feb 16 19:35:27 CET 2006


On 2/15/06, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:57:26 -0800, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: >My expectation is that the Py3k standard I/O library will do all of >its own conversions on top of binary files anyway -- if you missed it, >I'd like to get rid of any ties to C's stdio. > Would the standard I/O module have low level utility stream-processing generators to do things like linesep normalization in text or splitlines etc? I.e., primitives that could be composed for unforseen usefulness, like unix pipeable stuff?

Yes. To get a (very limited) idea of what I'm talking about, see the sio package in the sandbox: http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/sio/

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