On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 21:25, Stephen Tucker <stephen_tuc...@sil.org> wrote: > > Chris, > > Thanks for this clarification. > > I have not found documentation that disagrees with you. I simply observe that > the documentation that I have alluded to earlier in this chain (section 5.9 > File Objects)
That's specifically the plain file objects. Other types of objects behave differently. > could have been made clearer by the addition of a note along the lines that > the behaviour of a file's read method (in particular, what the unit of > information is that it reads (that is, "byte", "UTF-8 encoded character", or > whatever)) depends on the way in which the file has been opened. > > Thank you, Chris (and others) for your attention to my request. I consider > this enquiry closed. > Cool cool! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
