Philipp Freyer added the comment:
I understand and accept that but I would recommend highlighting this difference
in the documentation a bit more since this information can be easily skipped
when reading the documentation.
I still find it important to hint to this stronger since I've seen
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
I concur with Josh and will mark this as closed.
It is unfortunate, but the time to get an API right is before it lands, not
years after people have come to depend on it.
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nosy: +rhettinger
resolution: -> wont fix
stage: -> resolved
status:
Josh Rosenberg added the comment:
All of the compression modules (gzip, lzma) have this behavior, not just bz2;
it's consistent in that sense. Changing it now, after literally decades with
the old behavior, would needlessly break existing programs. As you say, it's
documented clearly, I'm
New submission from Philipp Freyer :
The documentation clearly states that bz2.open(mode='r') opens a file in binary
mode. I would have to use 'rt' for text mode.
The basic Python open(mode='r') method opens a file in text mode.
This is how I would expect any open(mode='r') method to work,
