codecs.open and buffering modes...

[Sam]

Hmmm...no one knows the reason for the discrepancy?  Should I post on
the developers' list to see if anyone knows?

Thanks

On Feb 9, 6:19 pm, Sam <samsli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> codecs.open defaults to line buffering.  But open defaults to using
> the system buffer size.  Why the discrepancy?  Is it different for a
> reason?
>
> How do these choices affect performance?  (Particularly under Linux).
>
> Thanks