[Python-3000] sys.stdin and sys.stdout with textfile

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> All sorts of things are different when reading stdin vs. opening a
> filename. e.g. stdin may be a pipe.

Which suggests that if anything is going to try
to guess the encoding, it would be better for it
to start reading from the actual stream you're
going to use and buffer the result, rather than
rely on being able to open it separately.

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