Prothon should not borrow Python strings!

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Ewing wrote:

> Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
>> The result of reading a file is a binary data string. The result of 
>> parsing an XML file is a character string.
> 
> 
> What if the file you're reading is a text file?

In the most rigorously consistent model, you would decode the data, just 
as if you were reading a file that happened to be constructed of a list 
of integers.

But of course there are a variety of shortcuts you could implement, like 
a "text file" object or a "read as ASCII" flag for a file object or ... 
practicality beats purity.

  Paul Prescod