Re: [Python-3000] Immutable bytes -- looking for volunteer

2007-09-24 Thread Jeffrey Yasskin
On 9/20/07, Adam Hupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/07, Jeffrey Yasskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the help! This brings up a policy question: For patches > > like the one I've attached here, do we want to start submitting them > > now, or build up a mondo patch to fix the

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-24 Thread Bill Janssen
> Also, if there are other places in the > > documentation > > where it seems to imply that the distinction between text and binary modes > > is > > meaningless on Unix systems, drop me a note and I'll have a look. That's certainly the prescribed behavior for the C stdio streams on POSIX-complian

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-24 Thread Charles D Hixson
Skip Montanaro wrote: >> P.S.: If opening files on Linux is now to be semantically meaningful, >> then the documentation on that section also needs to change. Currently >> it appears to mean that it's a meaningless specification that will be >> ignored unless you happen to be using the MSWindows