Zdeněk Pavlas added the comment: > if they want binary data, they will have to open files in binary mode.
There were binary files. *THEN* dos and mac came with text files. To keep the *ORIGINAL* semantics we have to add *NEW* flags to open/fopen. Looks we'll run out of O_ bitfields and letters quite soon. 64bit words and unicode alphabet finally start to make sense... :) __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2028> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com