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

[Bill Janssen]

>  > > In practice, binary concerns do intrude even for text data; you may
>  > > well want to save it back out in the original encoding, without any
>  > > spurious changes.
> 
> Then for the purposes of this discussion, it's not text, it's binary.
> In many cases it will need to be read as bytes and stored that way
> until written back out.

That was more or less my original point; the string situation has
gotten complicated enough that I believe any careful coder will do any
transformations in application code, rather than relying on (and
trying to understand) the particular machinations of some text wrapper
in the I/O library.

Bill