On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Curt Hagenlocher <curt <at> hagenlocher.org> writes: >> >> No, but it also has to interact with filesystems of possibly invalid >> or indeterminate encodings. What does java.io do? > > My point was that Python doesn't have to interact with the Java IO libraries, > while it has to interact with the Unix and Windows IO APIs.
Of course. But the Java IO libraries have to interact with the Unix and Windows IO APIs as well. It might be interesting to know how they handle similar situations. -- Curt Hagenlocher c...@hagenlocher.org _______________________________________________ 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