[Python-Dev] empty string api for files

[Steve Holden]

Terry Reedy wrote:
>>I'm not convinced. Where would you ever care about reading a file in
>>N-bytes chucks?
> 
> 
> This was once a standard paradigm for IBM mainframe files.  I vaguely 
> remember having to specify the block/record size when opening such files. 
> I have no idea of today's practice though.
> 
Indeed. Something like:

SYSIN   DD  *,BLKSIZE=80

IIRC (which I may well not do after thirty years or so). People used to 
solve generic programming problems in JCL just for the hell of it.

regards
  Steve
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