[Python-3000] New io system and binary data

[Guido van Rossum]

On 9/19/07, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> This really isn't a UTF-8 problem.  It is the problem with file opens
> defaulting to "text" mode instead of "binary" mode rearing its ugly
> head again.

You can repeat that until you're blue in the face but it's not going
to change. Way more programs (especially simple ones) deal with txet
than with binary data.

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