Hmmm...no one knows the reason for the discrepancy? Should I post on the developers' list to see if anyone knows?
Thanks On Feb 9, 6:19 pm, Sam <samsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > codecs.open defaults to line buffering. But open defaults to using > the system buffer size. Why the discrepancy? Is it different for a > reason? > > How do these choices affect performance? (Particularly under Linux). > > Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
