Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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).
Sounds like the stackable StreamWriters and -Readers would nicely integrate into this design. > Years ago I wrote a prototype; checkout sandbox/sio/. Thanks. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to having a look - unlike many of the pydev folks, I don't work for Google and can't spend 20% or 50% of my time on Python core development :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 17 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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