[Python-Dev] PEP 540: Add a new UTF-8 mode (v2)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 December 2017 at 16:18, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> "b" mostly matters on Windows, correct? And Windows doesn't use C or POSIX
> locale, correct? And if these are correct, then is this an issue? And if so,
> why?

In Python 3, "b" matters everywhere, since it controls whether the
stream gets wrapped in TextIOWrapper or not.

It's only in Python 2 that the distinction is Windows-specific (where
it controls how "\r\n" sequences get handled).

Cheers,
Nick.

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