Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment:

This discussion should probably be submitted as a new RFE (requesting "text" as 
a more obvious and beginner friendly alias for universal_newlines), but I'll 
also add a note regarding precedent for a simple binary/text toggle: the mode 
settings for open().

There, the default is text (with the default encoding determined by the 
system), and you have to include "b" in the mode settings to say "I want raw 
binary".

For the subprocess APIs, the default is different (i.e. binary), so the natural 
counterpart to the "b" mode flag in open() would be an explicit "text" mode 
flag.

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