On 9/20/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Ewing writes:
> > Christian Heimes writes:
> > > I recommend that the problem and fix gets documented. Maybe stdin,
> > > stdout and stderr should get a method that disables the implicit
> > > conversion like setMode("b") / setMode("t").
> >
> > Or maybe another set of objects called stdbin, stdbout, stdberr.
>
> Nice idea, but it would have been a tad more true to the origin of the
> names if "stdin", "stderr", and "stdout" were binary (as the re-use of
> those fine names automatically implies to anyone who knows what
> they're doing), and "textin", "textout", and "texterr" were the bogus
> VMS/Windows corrupted versions of the dandy UNIX originals.Oh for chrissakes. Can we stop the bikeshedding on this topic already? Several people have already agreed that sys.stdin.buffer is good enough. Please stop while you're ahead. -- --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
