On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Jason Orendorff wrote: > Given the context (stdin/stdout/stderr), I'd love to know what you're > thinking of here. I can't name a program offhand that wants to > operate on binary data via a pipeline. There are a few that *can*, > like gzip, but my impression is that even those aren't often used that > way anymore.
Huh. I use pipelines constructed in the shell for binary data regularly; I don't see any reason not to do that. I'd certainly rather see the stdio streams be available as binary data, possibly with convenient text-centric wrappers also available. But I'd be fine with constructing those myself. -Fred -- Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
