[Python-Dev] Generalised String Coercion

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/9/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I thought that's what I proposed before. I'm still for it.

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