[Python-3000] New io system and binary data

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 26 02:43:05 CEST 2007


Bill Janssen wrote:
> Now that we've moved away from the C stdio model, and the distinction
> between text and binary streams is meaningful even on POSIX systems,
> perhaps we should also change those names to reflect that difference
> from C.

I don't think anything would be gained by changing these
well-established and widely-understood names just because
of such an obscure and pedantic detail.

--
Greg


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