[Python-3000] New io system and binary data

[Bill Janssen]

Greg Ewing writes:
> Christian Heimes writes:
> > I recommend that the problem and fix gets documented. Maybe stdin,
> > stdout and stderr should get a method that disables the implicit
> > conversion like setMode("b") / setMode("t").
> 
> Or maybe another set of objects called stdbin, stdbout, stdberr.

Nice idea, but it would have been a tad more true to the origin of the
names if "stdin", "stderr", and "stdout" were binary (as the re-use of
those fine names automatically implies to anyone who knows what
they're doing), and "textin", "textout", and "texterr" were the bogus
VMS/Windows corrupted versions of the dandy UNIX originals.

Bill