[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)
M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri Feb 17 13:53:39 CET 2006
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
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).
Sounds like the stackable StreamWriters and -Readers would nicely integrate into this design.
Years ago I wrote a prototype; checkout sandbox/sio/.
Thanks. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to having a look - unlike many of the pydev folks, I don't work for Google and can't spend 20% or 50% of my time on Python core development :-)
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