Curt Hagenlocher wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> 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.
See the following email for a summary of existing practice (as of 2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg27352.html -Scott -- Scott Dial [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
