read text file byte by byte

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/14/2009 7:37 PM, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> 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

I agree.
http://bugs.python.org/issue7508

Terry Jan Reedy