In IronPython 2.7, the io classes are pretty strict that subclasses must return bytes from read(). However, in CPython, bytes is an alias for str, and therefore returning a str is perfectly valid. In particular, the gzip module does this, and trying to fix it to handle bytes is a never-ending journey and could very well break other things. I think changing io to be less strict and accept strings as a result from read() is a better option.
Is there anything that likely to be broken by doing so? - Jeff _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
