[issue2028] _fmode = O_TEXT is obsolete
Zdeněk Pavlas
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Feb 7 14:56:13 CET 2008
Zdeněk Pavlas added the comment:
> if they want binary data, they will have to open files in binary mode.
There were binary files. *THEN* dos and mac came with text files. To
keep the *ORIGINAL* semantics we have to add *NEW* flags to open/fopen.
Looks we'll run out of O_ bitfields and letters quite soon. 64bit
words and unicode alphabet finally start to make sense... :)
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