[New-bugs-announce] [issue1248] ftplib needs a rewrite to use bytes/buffers

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

For instance, ftplib.FTP reads from sockets using socket.makefile(), but
in text mode.  That's bad when the data could be in the format of ASCII
or binary data.

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: py3k
messages: 56281
nosy: brett.cannon
priority: normal
severity: major
status: open
title: ftplib needs a rewrite to use bytes/buffers
versions: Python 3.0

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