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

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/13/2014 8:53 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 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().

I sent a message to Armin about this.

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Terry Jan Reedy