Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > It's nice that that's at least possible, but I, for one, would still consider > it a bug that it isn't possible to open it in text mode.
>>> io.TextIOWrapper(open("/dev/tty", "r+b", buffering=0)) <_io.TextIOWrapper name='/dev/tty' encoding='UTF-8'> > Just to demonstrate failure of getpass, by the way: Looks as this was fixed in issue18116 for 3.4. David, perhaps issue18116 should be backported to older Python versions. ---------- nosy: +benjamin.peterson, hynek, stutzbach _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20074> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com