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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes:
> 
> 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.

And the documentation has now been fixed:
http://bugs.python.org/issue21364

So something *can* come out of a python-list rantfest, it seems.

Regards

Antoine.