On 8/26/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, why not just create the temporary file in binary mode and wrap an > io.TextIOWrapper instance around it?
That works, but leaves TemporaryFile with a text mode that is somewhat crippled. TemporaryFile unconditionally uses the default filesystem encoding when in text mode so it can't be relied upon to hold arbitrary strings. This is error prone and confusing IMO. An additional reason for adding newline and encoding: TemporaryFile has always taken all of the optional arguments open() has, namely 'mode' and 'bufsize'. There is a nice symmetry in adding these new arguments as well. -- Adam Hupp | http://hupp.org/adam/ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
