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[Christian Heimes]

> Really? I wasn't entirely aware of this effect of the "io" module.
> Somehow, without at all paying attention (because certain third party
> modules blocking me for awhile, I never looked close enough), I just
> sort of thought the "io" module was mostly thin wrappers around stdio
> primitives, into a more Pythonic API.

Yes, really. :)
The new io modules doesn't use stdio. It operates solely on file
descriptors and low level functions like open(2) instead of fopen(3).
All high level functions like buffering is implemented in Python (and
some C for speed).

Christian