Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
> someone wrote:
>
> > (alternate idea: instead of adding a non-standard mode
> > flag, how about a "textfile" constructor?)
>
> with the following signature, perhaps:
>
> f = textfile(filename, mode="r", encoding=None)
Enthusiastic +1.
But I think that encoding should default to "ASCII". We also need to
discuss under what circumstances textfile("foo").read() returns Unicode
string versus 8-bit string.
Paul Prescod
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