sys.stdin and two CTRL-Ds

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <44A6DD6E.5000502 at lexicon.net>,
 John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:

>-u unbuffers sys.stdout 
>and sys.stderr (and makes them binary, which wouldn't be a good idea on 
>a Windows box).

Why not?