Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/13/2014 05:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:08:42 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> Because Python 3 presents stdin and stdout as text streams however, it
>> makes them more difficult to use with binary data, which is why Armin
>> sets up all that extra code to make sure his file objects are binary.
>
> What surprises me is how hard that is. Surely there's a simpler way to
> open stdin and stdout in binary mode? If not, there ought to be.

Somebody already posted this:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.stdin

which talks about .detach().

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~Ethan~