Nathaniel Gaertner added the comment:
Hey sorry for the delay in responding.
My thought with forcing 'rt' mode is that it would actually reduce the
flexibility of the FileInput class. For 5758, I suspect the issue arose out of
a confusion about what strings meant in python 2
Change by Nathaniel Gaertner :
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keywords: +patch
pull_requests: +13131
stage: -> patch review
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New submission from Nathaniel Gaertner :
While looking at https://bugs.python.org/issue5758 I noticed that 'rt' support
had been added to gzip and bz2 in 3.3, but FileInput still limited its mode
options to 'r', 'rb', 'rU', and 'U'. It seem
