[Python-3000] encoding hell

[Aahz]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:45:28PM -0700, Aahz wrote:
>> 
>> You want to be able to read the file and write data to it.  That argues
>> in favor of seek(0) and seek(-1) being the only supported behaviors,
>> though.
> 
>    Sometimes programs need tell() + seek(). Two examples (very similar,
> really).
> 
>    Example 1. I have a program, an email robot that receives email(s) and
> marks email addresses in a "database" that is actually a text file:

[snip examples of file with email addresses and INN control files]

My understanding is that those are in fact binary files that are being
treated as line-oriented "text" files.  I would agree that there needs
to be a way to do line-oriented processing on binary files, but anyone
who attempts to process these as text files is foolish at best.
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