> This [text/binary] distinction is > supported by the basic file operations in the C library. To open a > text file in binary mode is technically an error (although in many OSs > you'll get away with it).
It's one of those "technical" errors that really isn't an error (from Python). On the other hand, opening a file in text mode will cause real data damage to binary files on Windows. Let some platform-specific library for that platform preserve it, if it cares to. I see no point in keeping this distinction in Python, even for those platforms bone-headed enough to preserve it. And the default certainly shouldn't be to the mode which loses data. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
