[Python-3000] New io system and binary data

[Greg Ewing]

Bill Janssen wrote:

> Nice idea, but it would have been a tad more true to the origin of the
> names if "stdin", "stderr", and "stdout" were binary (as the re-use of
> those fine names automatically implies to anyone who knows what
> they're doing)

No, the names only imply that to Unix users who are ignorant
of the correct way to use the C stdio library portably.
Right from the beginning, binary mode was an option, and
if you didn't ask for it, you got text mode. The same thing
applies to stdin/out/err. Anyone using them to handle binary
data is and was writing non-portable code.

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