Jean-Michel Fauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> added the comment:
2010/6/4 Ãric Araujo <rep...@bugs.python.org>
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> Ãric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
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> Could you think of a way to improve the docs on that point?
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> Quick and dirty answer.
I have ~10 years experience with Python and it seems
to me the io module is technically excellent.
However, I have found it is not so obvious to
understand the usage of all these arguments,
errors, encoding, line_buffering, ... in the
class constructors and methods like io.open().
The doc describes what these arguments are,
their states, but not too much how to use
them.
As an exemple, I read some time ago on the c.l.p
mailing list, somebody complaining about the "encoding"
argument of the class TextIOWrapper. He defined an
"encoding='utf-8'" in the ctor and did not
understand why his "text" was not automagically
encoded. Answer: the encoding arg is only a kind
of information and does not do anything.
BTW, it was only when I read that post, I understand
a little bit more.
Regards.
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/4 Ãric Araujo <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Ãric Araujo <<a href="mailto:mer...@netwok.org";>mer...@netwok.org</a>>
added the comment:<br>
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Could you think of a way to improve the docs on that point?<br>
<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div>Quick and
dirty answer.<br><br>I have ~10 years experience with Python and it seems<br>to
me the io module is technically excellent.<br><br>However, I have found it is
not so obvious to<br>
understand the usage of all these arguments,<br>errors, encoding,
line_buffering, ... in the <br>class constructors and methods like
io.open().<br><br>The doc describes what these arguments are,<br>their states,
but not too much how to use<br>
them.<br><br>As an exemple, I read some time ago on the c.l.p<br>mailing list,
somebody complaining about the "encoding"<br>argument of the class
TextIOWrapper. He defined an <br>"encoding='utf-8'" in the
ctor and did not<br>
understand why his "text" was not automagically<br>encoded. Answer:
the encoding arg is only a kind<br>of information and does not do
anything.<br><br>BTW, it was only when I read that post, I understand<br>a
little bit more.<br>
<br>Regards.<br><br>
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