On 9/19/07, Fred Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I agree that binary pipelines are useful and should be possible. I just don't think this should be the default behavior for stdin/stdout. Since the binary stream underlying stdin is readily available as sys.stdin.buffer (and ditto for stdout and even stderr) I don't think any action needs to be taken. note that the instance variable doesn't start with an underscore. It's part of the public API for text files. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
