On 9/4/06, David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
> I would prefer that there is no default. But since that is incompatible
> with the existing API for open(), I accept that I'm not likely to win
> that argument.

First, can you outline how the proposal of no default is incompatible
with the existing API for open?

print open("Documents/foo.py").encoding

Second: the whole IO library is being overhauled. How can backwards
compatibility be an issue?

 Paul Prescod
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