Skip Montanaro wrote: >> P.S.: If opening files on Linux is now to be semantically meaningful, >> then the documentation on that section also needs to change. Currently >> it appears to mean that it's a meaningless specification that will be >> ignored unless you happen to be using the MSWindows platform. >> > > I just checked in a change to the documentation for the builtin open function. > Please have a look at Doc/library/functions.rst and let me know if you > think more needs to be done. Also, if there are other places in the > documentation > where it seems to imply that the distinction between text and binary modes is > meaningless on Unix systems, drop me a note and I'll have a look. > > Skip > > Yes, that says what I feel it should say. (Well, I looked it up at http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/functions.html?highlight=builtin ). There's another place in the tutorial section http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/tutorial/inputoutput.html?highlight=open and search for "On Windows and the Macintosh, 'b' appended to the mode opens the file in binary mode,"
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