[Python-ideas] BufferedIO and detach

[Robert Collins]

On 5 March 2013 10:12, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

>> The problem is that sys.stdin and sys.stdout default to
>> TextIOWrappers, and handling protocols requires bytes, so having a way
>> to drop down to bytes is very convenient.
>
> Why do you want to drop to bytes *after* having already buffered stuff
> in sys.{stdin,stdout}?

I don't (when reading), and for my purposes having the drop-down
process error when reads have been done at thetext layer would be
fine.

Writing is more ambiguous (for me, not as a problem statement), but
also works fine today so nothing is needed from my perspective.

-Rob

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