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

[Bill Janssen]

Guido writes:
> On 6/22/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > > A given codec won't randomly decide to change its normalisation policy,
> > > though - so when you pick the codec, you're picking the normalisation as
> > > well.
> >
> > You're sure?  Between CPython and Jython and IronPython and
> > JavascriptPython and ...?  Might as well specify it up front.
> 
> I'm not sure I see the use case.

Portable Python code that reads and writes "text" files the same way
in any implementation of Python.

Bill