Python under PowerShell adds characters

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:47 am, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>> But normally, the standard streams are connected ultimately to a
>> human, so they're text.
> 
> Huh? The standard input is the workload 

Which is usually typed by a human, read from a file containing
human-readable text, a file-name intended to be read by a human, or some
other data in human-readable form.


> and the standard output is the result of the computation.

Which is generally intended to be read by a human.


> Arguably, the standard error stream is meant for humans.

Just like the rest of the computation. Relatively few command-line
computations are performed by machines, for machines, using
machine-friendly human-hostile formats.




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Steve
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