read text file byte by byte

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:09:52 -0300, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> escribió:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:56:55 -0800, sjdevnull at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> The 3.1 documentation specifies that file.read returns bytes:
>
>> Does it need fixing?
>
> There are no file objects in 3.x. The file() function no longer
> exists. The return value from open(), will be an instance of
> _io.<something> depending upon the mode, e.g. _io.TextIOWrapper for 'r',
> _io.BufferedReader for 'rb', _io.BufferedRandom for 'w+b', etc.
>
> 	http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/io.html
>
> io.IOBase.read() doesn't exist, io.RawIOBase.read(n) reads n bytes,
> io.TextIOBase.read(n) reads n characters.

So basically this section [1] should not exist, or be completely rewritten?
At least the references to C stdio library seem wrong to me.

[1] http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/stdtypes.html#file-objects

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Gabriel Genellina