[Python-3000] On PEP 3116: new I/O base classes

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On 6/20/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > Ah, not everyone dealing with text is dealing with line-delimited
> > text, you know...
>
> It's really the only difference between text and non-text.

Text is a sequence of characters.  Non-text is a sequence of bytes.
Characters may be multi-byte.  It is no longer an ASCII world.

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.             President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC