Kristján Valur Jónsson added the comment: Ok, thanks. The consistency argument is strong, also Antoine's suggestion to use the return type of read() as a discriminant.
also please excuse me because I am not a habitual user of Python 3 and haven't become used to the str/binary dichotomy yet. I didn´t know, for instance, about io.BytesIO until I found to my horror that io.StringIO.read() would output unicode (i.e str). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16487> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
