> there's enough "Mode U cannot be combined" stuff in the > PEP to make me think that they're slightly more than just a > minor variation. > > I think you can simplify the PEP somewhat by emphasizing > the difference. making things simpler is never a bad idea. > > > Also, changing the mode is a morelocalized change (it's all in > > fileobject.c). > > I'm willing to do the work necessary to provide an alternate > factory/constructor. from what I can tell, all that has to be > done is is to apply the patch, and do some fairly straight- > forward refactoring. > > (and perhaps some slight API renaming -- the functions in > there are clearly too useful to deserve names like > Py_UniversalNewlineFgets -- "there is no permanent place in this > world for ugly names" ;-) > > so +1 on checking it in as it stands, but -0 on not touching > the result until 2.3 final... OK, good. I'll leave this between you & Jack then. I'll try to make sure you two actually do something about the open items before 2.3 is released! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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