[Python-3000] New io system and binary data

[Greg Ewing]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> With Python 2.5 the input and output data isn't implicitly
> converted

Are you sure that's always true? What about systems
where newlines aren't \n?

> I recommend that the problem and fix gets documented. Maybe stdin,
> stdout and stderr should get a method that disables the implicit
> conversion like setMode("b") / setMode("t").

Or maybe another set of objects called stdbin, stdbout, stdberr.

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