Put sys.stdout into binary mode?

Thu Jul 24 13:17:12 EDT 2003

How do I make sure that sys.stdout (or sys.stdin) is in
"binary" mode?

This seems to work, is it the "right" way of doing it?

  sys.stdout = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),'wb')

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