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Author techtonik
Recipients georg.brandl, techtonik
Date 2010-04-14.13:26:00
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Need to document the that os.O_BINARY flag is obligatory for cross-platform behavior of os.open() on Windows. By default os.open() opens file as binary on Unix, but as text on Windows.


See also issue2028 for discussion of making os.O_BINARY default on py3k. I can reopen this issue.
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2010-04-14 13:26:04techtoniksetmessageid: <1271251564.41.0.889317623766.issue8399@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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