New submission from David W. Lambert <lamber...@corning.com>: See thread http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/85e c714aa6898d84#
En Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:12:13 -0300, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> escribió: > Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 <at> yahoo.com.ar> writes: >> The undocumented behavior is relying on the open() builtin to return a >> BufferedReader for a binary file. > I don't see the problem. open() will return some BufferedIOBase > implmentor, and > that's all that TextIOWrapper needs. How do you know? AFAIK, the return value of open() is completely undocumented: http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/functions.html#open And if you open the file in text mode, the return value isn't a BufferedIOBase. -- Gabriel Genellina The return value of open() is a "stream", according to http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/io.html#module-io ---------- messages: 83990 nosy: LambertDW severity: normal status: open title: open documentation unclear _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5539> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
