[Python-Dev] Generalised String Coercion

[Nick Coghlan]

James Y Knight wrote:
> Hum, actually, it somewhat makes sense for the "open" builtin to  
> become what is now "codecs.open", for convenience's sake, although it  
> does blur the distinction between a byte stream and a character  
> stream somewhat. If that happens, I suppose it does actually make  
> sense to give "makefile" the same signature.

We could always give the text mode/binary mode distinction in "open" a real 
meaning - text mode deals with character sequences, binary mode deals with 
byte sequences.

Cheers,
Nick.

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