[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
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On 2/16/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
What will be the explicit way to open a file in bytes mode and in text mode (I for one would like to move away from open() completely as well) ?
Will we have a single file type with two different modes or two different types ?
I'm currently thinking of an I/O stack somewhat like Java's. At the bottom there's a class that lets you do raw unbuffered reads and writes (and seek/tell) on binary files using bytes arrays. We can layer onto this buffering, text encoding/decoding, and more. (Windows CRLF<->LF conversion is also an encoding of sorts).
Years ago I wrote a prototype; checkout sandbox/sio/.
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