On 2/16/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What will be the explicit way to open a file in bytes mode > and in text mode (I for one would like to move away from > open() completely as well) ? > > Will we have a single file type with two different modes > or two different types ?
I'm currently thinking of an I/O stack somewhat like Java's. At the bottom there's a class that lets you do raw unbuffered reads and writes (and seek/tell) on binary files using bytes arrays. We can layer onto this buffering, text encoding/decoding, and more. (Windows CRLF<->LF conversion is also an encoding of sorts). Years ago I wrote a prototype; checkout sandbox/sio/. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
